Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1997, 7:04 PM CDT for Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1997, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 KMCI 060004
SVRMCI
MOC211-060045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
704 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SULLIVAN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
BOYNTON BY 710 PM
GREEN CITY BY 710 PM
MILAN BY 720 PM
* AT 7 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN NEWTOWN AND POLLOCK MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HAIL TO 1 INCH AND WIND
GUSTS TO 65 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FOR
YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
PCWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 230 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997 SHORT TERM CONCERNS INCLUDE PROPAGATION OF CNVCTN OVER IOWA AND CLD/TEMP FCSTS ACRS FA TONIGHT. LONGER TERM CONCERNS CENTER AROUND WK SFC TROF NR FA AND GENERAL EFFECTS OF NEARLY CONTINUOUS S/WVS DROPPING INTO MEAN TROF EAST OF OUR AREA. CRNT CNVCTN SEEMS TO BE LIMITED TO NARROW AREA INVOF ANALYZED VORT CENTER NOW JUST SE OF MSP. EXTRAPOLATION TAKES THAT NARROW CORRIDOR E/SE OF FA. WRN EDGE OF THREAT SEEMS TO BE ALG 5H TEMP GRADIENT...WHERE INSTABILITY DROPS OFF. WL HOLD ON TO EXISTING CHC -SHRA POP ALG NE...BUT WL CONFINE AREA SLIGHTLY AND REMOVE TIMING. STLT TRENDS AND RH PROGS STAY IN LINE WITH GOING CLD FCSTS ACRS THE REST OF THE FA. LATER IN PD...RDGG/WARMTH ALOFT SHOULD KEEP THE FA DRY...WITH ONLY REAL CHANCE ACRS NE SXNS ASSOC WITH VERY WEAK LLVL MSTR CNVRGNC. ATTM WL LEAVE DRY. .EAX...NONE JHV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-061200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997 ...NO SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT... FORECAST: A FEW STRAY SHOWERS MAY REACH PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI TONIGHT...BUT OTHERWISE DRY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. DISCUSSION: A FEW REMNANTS\ FROM CONVECTION OVER IOWA AND MINNESOTA MAY DROP SOUTH INTO EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF MISSOURI. THIS ACTIVITY WILL WEAKEN QUICKLY AND RAPIDLY AS IT DOES SO. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. JHV
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.