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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 10, 1992Chariton County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 3:41 PM CDT for Chariton County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 1992, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Chariton County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1843 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 230 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
1843 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 102042
SVRCOU
MOC041-102115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
341 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN CHARITON COUNTY
 
AT 345 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL CHARITON
COUNTY...OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA. THE STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COMMUNITY OF GLASGOW
SHORTLY AFTER 4 PM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR| ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
PERLOW

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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.