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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1991, 6:54 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas; Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1991, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1991, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Doniphan County, KS, Holt County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 536 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 262354
TORMCI
MOC087-KSC043-270030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO
654 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
HOLT...
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
NORTHWEST DONIPHAN...
AT 650 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING INTO
NORTHWEST DONIPHAN COUNTY NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND KANSAS. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND ON ITS
PRESENT COURSE SHOULD MOVE NEAR NAPIER AND MOUND CITY MISSOURI
DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED
TORNADO DAMAGE DURING THE PAST HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FaIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 26, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-009-013-KSZ015-016-262230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 455 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM THIS FRIDAY EVENING... AT 455 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN KANSAS... WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA...TO 20 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI...TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF ST JOSEPH...BY AROUND 6 PM. ALTHOUGH NO STORMS ARE CURRENTLY THREATENING THE KANSAS CITY AREA... DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES IS POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING. THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THEATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-009-013-KSZ015-016-262310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 540 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM THIS FRIDAY EVENING... AT 530 PM... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE OVER PARTS OF EASTERN KANSAS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR WICHITA NORTHEAST TO 40 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA. THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR ST MARYS. TORNADOES WERE OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM SHORTLY AFTER 500 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL MOVE INTO FAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI NORTH OF ST JOSEPH SHORTLY BEFORE 700 PM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA AND WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO STORMS ARE CURRENTLY THREATENING THE KANSAS CITY AREA... DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES IS POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE STORMS... AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LONGNECKER
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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.