Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 6:25 AM CDT for Andrew County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 6:25 AM CDT (11:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Andrew County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 071125
SVRMCI
MOC003-071215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO
625 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
ANDREW
AT 620 AM... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR AMAZONIA IN
SOUTHWEST ANDREW COUNTY..\. 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL PASS OVER THE
TOWN OF SAVANNAH BY 645 AM.
HEAVY RAINS WILL QUICKLY FLOOD SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS.
LONGNECKERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:16 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
MOZ008-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 210 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA FOR TONIGHT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH...NUMBER 404...IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN ANOTHER WATCH AREA IN WEST KANSAS. QUITE POSSIBLY...THESE STORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT ARRIhVING IN THE LOCAL AREA EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY BE REISSUED. STAY TUNED.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:46 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 545 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON... AT 528 AM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE HEAVIEST OF THE STORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR NODAWAY IN ANDREW COUNTY... 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH. NEARBY STORMS HAD PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE ST JOSEPH AREA SHORTLY AFTER 500 AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA SOUTHEAST OF LINCOLN... ALONG THE IOWA-MISSOURI BORDER NORTH OF MARYVILLE MISSOURI.. . AND OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN MISSOURI NORTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. MOVEMENT OF ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 20 min |
| Jun 7, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cole, Miller, Osage | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 20 min |
| Jun 7, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.