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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1992, 8:49 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1992, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 2290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
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, 3:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 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.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 400 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 1000 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH HALF OF CLAY COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM... AT 355 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF LIBERTY MISSOURI MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE METRO AREA THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IN A STRONG BUILDING.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 7:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone, Callaway | 34 min |
| Sep 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cooper, Moniteau | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway | 48 min |
| Sep 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Osage | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 25 min |
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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.