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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 15, 1991Livingston County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1991, 3:43 PM CDT for Livingston County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1991, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1991, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Livingston County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 3:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Livingston, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 152042
TORMCI
MOC117-152115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
343 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
          ...EASTERN LIVINGSTON
 
AT 340PM CDT TORNADO REPORTED 3 MILES NORTHEAAST OF CHILLICOTHE MOVING
EAST. THIS TORNADO IS HEADED FOT THR CITYS OF CHILLICOTHE AND
WHEELING...TAKE COVER NOW. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO THE LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FCURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK 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, Jun 15, 2:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 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, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	25 min
Jun 15, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Callaway	35 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1991 Every tornado warning in 1991 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.