Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1991, 3:07 PM CDT for Johnson County, Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1991, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1991, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 2594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 15, 2:26 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-150630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 220 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991 AT 215 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM JUST EAST OF TOPEKA TO JUST NORTH OF THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND NORTHEAST TO NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI. AT 205 PM...PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NORTH OF PLATTE CITY ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG WINDS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CLINTON AND DAVIESS COUNTIES JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST AND NORTHEAST OF CAMERON MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MILE AN HOUR. HIBBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Livingston | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Callaway | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 13 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.