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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 53 min |
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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.