Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 2:46 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pettis 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOU 081946
SVRCOU
MOC159-082030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
246 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
PETTIS
AT 245PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHERN PETTIS COUNTY...
10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 70 MPH
WINDS WERE REPORTED AT SEDALIA AT 243PM...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING MAY ALSO BE EXPECTED.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
LARMWhat 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 8, 10:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
MOZ004-008-081645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1030 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 1030 AM CDT...A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN ATCHISON COUNTY MISSOURI AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO AND ACROSS NODAWAY COUNTY OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI BY 1130 AM CDT THIS FRIDAY MORNING. VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL TO 1/2 INCH AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHWEST IOWA... SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...A VERY SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. MOVEMNT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 45 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
MOZ004-008-081730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1105 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...SMALL HAIL FALLING OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 11AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR HIAWATHA KANSAS...50 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...AND NEAR BURLINGTON JUNCTION MISSOURI...75 MILES NORTH OF KANSAS CITY IN NODAWAY COUNTY. AT 1020 AM...PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT ROCKPORT MISSOURI... 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. AND AROUND 11AM...BURLINGTON JUNCTION REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT AROUND 45 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN DONIPHAN COUNTY OF KANSAS AND IN THE MISSOURI COUNTIES OF NODAWAY...WORTH AND GENTRY...SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND PREPARED FOR INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH THAT AREA BY NOON. SOME OF THE LARGER CITIES LOCATED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE TROY KANSAS...MARYVILLE...GRANT CITY...AND ALBANY IN MISSOURI. POOLE
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
MOZ004-008-081830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1212 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE KANSAS CITY AND ST. JOSEPH AREAS... AT 1215PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED BETWEEN THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS STRETCH FROM KANSAS CITY WEST TOWARDS TOPEKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...BRIEF &GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN AREAS DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN COULD CAUSE LOWLAND AND BRIEF URBAN FLOODING. POOLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Moniteau, Morgan | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 7:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cole, Miller | 36 min |
| Jun 7, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Moniteau, Morgan | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Moniteau | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cole, Miller | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 18 min |
| Jun 8, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Morgan | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miller, Morgan | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cole | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson | 57 min |
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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.