Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1992, 3:46 PM CDT for Clay County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1992, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clay, MO | |
| Sep 7, 4:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clay, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 1496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
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, 11:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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, 4 hours 3 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.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-072040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 233 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 225 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS ...JUST NORTH OF LAWRENCE. BECAUSE THE AIR OVER EAST KANSAS AND WEST MISSOURI IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AREA UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI...WEST AND NORTH OF COLUMBIA. THIS STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:12 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 312 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 310 PM...THE STORMS IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA AND TO THE WEST HAVE WEAKENED SINCE 230 PM. THESE STORMS WERE STILL PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVED EAST AT 35 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE METRO AREA THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI...WEST AND NORTH OF COLUMBIA. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.