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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 19, 19904 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1990, 4:29 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1990, 4:29 AM CDT (09:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1990, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1990-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 681 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1990-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 190929
SVRMCI
MOC003-021-049-063-191015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO
429 AM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
      SOUTHERN ANDREW...NORTHERN BUCHANAN...CLINTON...DEKALB

AT 425 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST
ANDREW COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN.

 LTH

What 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 18, 10:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
1033 PM CDT MON JUN 18 1990

AT 1025 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEAR ST JOSEPH
MISSOURI.  THIS STORM WAS PART OF AN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH
EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH TO 40 MILES WEST OF KANSAS
CITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR
AND WILL AFFECT THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE KANSAS CITY ASREA BY
11 PM...AND THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS BY 1130 PM.  VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson49 min
Jun 18, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte49 min
Jun 18, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette, Ray42 min
Jun 19, 3:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Holt47 min

Nearby

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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.