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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 16, 1991Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1991, 10:45 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1991, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1991, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 1991-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1991-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden44 min
May 16, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison35 min
May 16, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan52 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.