Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1992, 2:42 PM CST for Boone County, Iowa. It was in force for 15 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1992, 2:42 PM CST (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1992, 2:57 PM CST
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 KDSM 062042 TORDSM IAC015-062115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 242 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL IOWA ...WESTERN BOONE COUNTY AT 236 PM BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES TO THE SOUTH OF OGDEN OR 45 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE LUTHER AND OGDEN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECEG OF STURDY FURNITURE. 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. WEINBRECHT
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, Mar 6, 12:50 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
IAZALL-061940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1250 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 AT 1235 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...NEAR STUART AND 10 MILES NORTH OF THE IOWA/MISSOURI BORDER NEAR MYSTIC. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A MUCH LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN IOWA. WIDELY SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHEAST...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR... AND THERE HAS BEEN A RAPID INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE. BARLOW
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 1:08 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
IAZALL-061940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND IOWA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 108 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 AT 100 PM CST...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SOME HAIL...WERE IN PARTLY OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES BETWEEN EARLHAM AND STUART...10 MILES NORTH OF THE IOWA-MISSOURI BORDER NEAR LEON...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBIA...AND MIDWAY BETWEEN INDAIANOLA AND KNOXVILLE. THE STORMS WERE PART OF A MUCH LARGER AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL IOWA INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE IMOVING NORTH AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 1:11 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
IAZALL-061940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND IOWA WEATHER UPDATE...CORRECTED TYPOS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 108 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 AT 100 PM CST...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...WERE IN PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES BETWEEN EARLHAM AND STUART...10 MILES NORTH OF THE IOWA-MISSOURI BORDER NEAR LEON...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBIA...AND MIDWAY BETWEEN INDAIANOLA AND KNOXVILLE. THE STORMS WERE PART OF A MUCH LARGER AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL IOWA INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 1:41 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
IAZALL-062040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 140 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 AT 128 PM CST...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...WERE IN PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES NEAR PANORA...25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...AND 10 MILES NORTH OF LAKE RATHBUN. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A MUCH LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM AS FAR NORTH AS STORY CITY IN CENTRAL IOWA...SOUTH INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 2:18 PM CST, 24 minutes before
IAZALL-062110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND IOWA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 215 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 AT 210 PM CST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN IOWA 35 MILES SOUTH OF DES MOINES (MIDWAY BETWEEN HUMESTON AND CHARITON) ...AND 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBIA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WERE OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF FORT DODGE...SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 TO 3O MILES AN HOUR. SULLIVAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Warren | 11 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.