Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 11:02 PM CDT for Clay County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 2199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 29, 8:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-300400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1011 PM CDT WED JULY 29 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 100 AM THURSDAY MORNING... AT 1010 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY STRONG...WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS...ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AND OVER SOUTHERN IOWA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. HAIL WAS REPORTED AT BEAN LAKE...IN EXTREME NORTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY AT 1005 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. . THE STRONGER STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HEAVY RAINS FROM THE STORMS MAY FLOOD ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 10:37 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-300400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1035 PM CDT WED JULY 29 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 1 AM THURSDAY MORNING... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI TONIGHT... AT 1025 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 50 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS STORM PRODUCE PEA TO MABLE SIZE HAIL AS IT MOVED ACROSS PLATTE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI...NEAR THE IOWA BORDER...65 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH. HEAVY RAINS FROM THE STORMS MAY FLOOD ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 44 min |
| Jul 30, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 3 hr |
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.