Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1991, 3:50 PM CDT for Linn County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1991, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1991, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Linn County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 KCOU 152050 TORCOU MOC115-152115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 350 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LINN COUNTY AT 340 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHILLICOTHE. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WESTERN LINN COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A TABLE OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...TAKE SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH NAS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. REMEMBER TO STAY AWAY FROM 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 24 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, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Callaway | 35 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.