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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 15, 1991Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1991, 2:47 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 13 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1991, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1991, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
13 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Leavenworth County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 12:00Z on 1991-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2594 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1991-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 151946
TORMCI
KSC103-152000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
247 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
          ...EASTERN LEAVENWORTH
 
AT 223 PM... A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR THE GROUND AT LANSING
KANSAS ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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, Jun 15, 2:26 PM CDT, 21 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte53 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.