Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Miami, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 212210
SVRMCI
KSC121-212300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
500 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...MIAMI
AT 500 PM... VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF KANSAS CITY NEAR OTTAWA KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35
MILES AN HOUR. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE
OTTAWA AREA SINCE 445 PM.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE PAOLA... AND OSAWATOMIE.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALShO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 21, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
MOZ008-KSZ016-212045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 250 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF EASTERN KANSAS AND MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON... AT 230 PM... SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THIS ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED FROM BETWEEN WICHITA AND SALINA IN KANSAS SOUTHEAST TO JUST NORTH OF JOPLIN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF CHANUTE KANSAS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LINN COUNTY KANSAS SHORTLY AFTER 300 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN MISSOURI... AND WERE LOCATED BETWEEN 40 AND 80 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY NEAR THE TOWNS OF CHILLICOTHE AND BROOKFIELD. DUE TO RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF THESE STORMS... NO MOVEMENT WAS DETERMINED. OTHER SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA... AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. LONGNECKER
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour before
MOZ008-KSZ016-212145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 400 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS PF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 1000 PM INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF NORTHWRN AND WESTERN MISSOURI UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 335 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE OVER PARTS OF EASTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THIS ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR CONCORDIA KANSAS SOUTHEAST TO NEAR SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF CHANUTE KANSAS. ONE OF THESE STORMS HAD PRODUCED 2 INCH HAIL IN EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY KANSAS SHORTLY BEFORE 300 PM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR... AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI... BETWEEN KIRKSVILLE AND MOBERLY. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS HAD RECENTLY DEVELOPED ALONG THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER JUST WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. DUE TO RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF THESE SHOWERS... NO MOVEMENT WAS DETERMINED. LONGNECKER
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:10 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
MOZ008-013-KSZ016-212200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 407 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR LINN COUNTY KANSAS EXPIRED AT 4 PM... AT 405 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...FROM 50 TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY TO NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA KANSAS. THE STONGEST STORMS WERE 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...AROUND THE OTTAWA KANSAS AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS LINN AND MIAMI COUNTIES IN KANSAS AND INTO SOUTHERN CASS AND BATES COUNTIES IN MISSOURI BETEEN 4 AND 530 PM THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE POSSIBLY OF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPING.
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:37 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
MOZ004-MOZ008-212245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 430 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI THAT INCLUDES THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS UNTIL 10PM THIS THURSDAY EVENING... AT 425 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND A SMALL PART OF WESTF CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONG STORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS WERE TO THE SOUTH OF EMPORIA KANSAS TO A BUTLER MISSOURI LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.