Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1990, 5:02 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1990, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1990, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, KS
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 052203
SVRMCI
KSC091-052230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
502 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON
AT 455PM CDT 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DOWNDOWN KANSAS CITY...AT LAKE QUIVIRA...IN NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY
KANSAS.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, May 5, 4:28 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
MOZ008-KSZ015-016-052230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 425 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL ARE MOVING INTO THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... A THUNDERSTORM OVER DE SOTO KANSAS...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY...PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT 410 PM ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE STORM. ANOTHER STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS NEAR PAOLA BY 500 PM.
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.