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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 7, 1990Moniteau County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1990, 9:42 PM CDT for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 18 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1990, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Moniteau 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1990-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2891 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1990-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
2891 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 080242
TORCOU
MOC135-080300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
942 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
      EXTREME SOUTHERN MONITEAU

AT 930PM MILLER COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO NEAR ENON ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  PERSONS IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD TAKE COVER
IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT AWAY FROM  FLYING
DEBRIS AND COVER FYOUR HEAD.  IN A HOUSE...TAKE SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

 NAME

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMoniteau, Morgan47 min
Jun 7, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone47 min
Jun 7, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXBoone3 hr
Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMoniteau29 min
Jun 7, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCole, Miller36 min
Jun 7, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMoniteau, Morgan45 min
Jun 7, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMoniteau33 min
Jun 7, 9:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCole, Moniteau3 hr
Jun 7, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCole, Miller30 min
Jun 8, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Ray54 min
Jun 8, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan55 min
Jun 8, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis44 min
Jun 8, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Morgan65 min
Jun 8, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMoniteau39 min
Jun 8, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller, Morgan61 min
Jun 8, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCole63 min
Jun 8, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline44 min
Jun 8, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPulaski36 min
Jun 8, 6:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess, Livingston3 hr
Jun 8, 6:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCarroll3 hr
Jun 8, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson, Johnson57 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.