Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1991, 6:40 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1991, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1991, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callaway County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 1766 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 KCOU 152341 TORCOU MOC027-160015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 640 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN CALLAWAY COUNTY AT 635PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF JEFFERSON CITY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF NEW BLOOMFIELD AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN NEW BLOOMFIELD AND HOLTS SUMMIT SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST :FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS OR MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. LARM
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, 4 hours 14 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
Local storm report, Jun 15, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
550 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991
...SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY JUNE 15TH...
TIME EVENT LOCATION
246 PM FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR GROUND 4 MILES SW OF LANSING IN
LEAVENWORTH COUNTY KS.
337 PM TORNADO ON GROUND 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF
CHILLICOTHE IN LIVINGSTON
COUNTY MISSOURI.Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
MOZ002-004-005-008-009-152230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 505 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI...MAINLY THOSE COUNTIES TO THE NORTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. THE ST JOSEPH AREA IS NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. HOWEVER...THE ENTIRE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA REMAINS INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH UNTIL 9 PM. AT 500 PM...RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...AND ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER FROM 20 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY TO 80 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
630 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1991
...SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY JUNE 15TH...
TIME E'VENT LOCATION
355 PM LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN WHEELING AREA...EASTERN
AND 4 INCHES RAIN. LIVINGSTON COUNTY MO.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, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 25 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.