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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 7, 1992Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1992, 6:10 AM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1992, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1992, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, KS, Jackson County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1992-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1992-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
16.8

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The text

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What 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-KZ015-070935-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
335 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 AM CDT...

AT 330 AM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA...FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BEGIN
TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI AROUND 415 AM CDT.  THESE STORM ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTING.

GH
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:38 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-KZ015-070935-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
530 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 AM CDT...

AT 530 AM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHWEST
MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND 70 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM 30
MILES WEST OF LAMONI IOWA TO TOPEKA KANSAS.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORS
WERE 20 MILES WEST OF PLATTE COUNTY MISSOURI OR 50 MILES NORTHWEST
OF KANSAS CITY.  ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE IOWA BORDER
WEST OF LAMONI.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR
AND COULD bBRING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO PLATTE
CITY MISSOURI BY 600 AM CDT
GH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 4:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison30 min
Jul 7, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt55 min
Jul 7, 5:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan63 min
Jul 7, 6:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Platte35 min
Jul 7, 10:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth26 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.