Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1992, 10:04 AM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1992, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1992, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leavenworth County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 071504 SVRMCI KSC103-071530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1004 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CIT
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, 6:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-KZ015-070935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 645 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... AT 640 AM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND 30 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM LAMONI IOWA TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORS WERE FROM OLATHE KANSAS THROUGH THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA TO JUST EAST OF GALLATIN MISSOURI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO BRING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING TO THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA UNTIL AROUND 730 AM CDT. GH
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-KZ015-071300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 705 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA EXPIRED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... AT 700 AM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CHILLICOTHE MISSOURI...TO THE SOUTHEAST PARTS OF KANSAS CITY TO JUST SOUTH OF OLATHE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...BUT HAD WEAKENED SINCE 630AM. HOWEVER ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY AS THESE STORMS PASS. THE LINE OF STORMS IS HEADED FOR CARROLLTON...HARRISONVILLE MISSOURI AND PAOLA KANSAS. FOLKS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAD FOR SHELTER. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCE/ MENT AGENCY.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-KZ015-071300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 735 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ST JOSEPH... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR KANSAS CITY UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 730 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR RICHMOND IN RAY COUNTY...35 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...OVER DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY AND NEAR PAOLA IN MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS...30 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES eAN HOUR. FOLKS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAD FOR SHELTER. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCE/ MENT AGENCY. GH
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-KZ015-071330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 800 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #564 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI INCLUDING KANSAS CITY... AT 830 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF SPRING HILL KANSAS TO SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY TO NEAR JAMESPORT MISSOURI...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE AWAY. WITH THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY THOUGH...THE STORMS WILL LIKELY REFIRE LATER THIS AFTERNOON....STAY TUNED.
Local storm report, Jul 7, 8:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
822 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992
...REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ON TUESDAY MORNING JULY 7...
TIME EVENT LOCATION
630 AM CDT WIND GUST TO 60 MPH 5 MI SE MCI
PLATTE CO MOLocal storm report, Jul 7, 9:47 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
947 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992
...ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ON TUESDAY MORNING JULY 7...
TIME EVENT LOCATION
515 AM CDT ESTIMATED WIND GUST TO 60 MPH ST. JOSEPH MO.
BUCHANNAN CO.
516 AM CDT WIND GUST TO 45 MPH (STJ ASOS) ST. JOSEPH MO.
u BUCHANNAN CO.
640 AM CDT LARGE LIMBS DOWN...TSTM WINDS INDEPENDENCE MO.
N. JACKSON CO.The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 35 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.