Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1992, 2:00 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1992, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cooper County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, Sep 7, 9:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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MOZ001-002-004-008-071540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1138 AM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY... AT 1126 AM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN AND AROUND INDEPENDENCE...LEES SUMMIT AND BLUE SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE CONTINUING ACROSS NORTH MISSOURI. MAINLY IN AN AREA...10 TO 20 MILES WIDE...FROM NEAR LEXINGTON TO JUST SOUTH OF BETHANY. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 11:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-071740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1138 AM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY... AT 1126 AM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN AND AROUND INDEPENDENCE...LEES SUMMIT AND BLUE SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE CONTINUING ACROSS NORTH MISSOURI. MAINLY IN AN AREA...10 TO 20 MILES WIDE...FROM NEAR LEXINGTON TO JUST SOUTH OF BETHANY. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN H OUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 31 min |
| Sep 7, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 37 min |
| Sep 7, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Howard, Saline | 34 min |
| Sep 7, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone, Howard | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 32 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.