Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1992, 9:27 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Callaway, MO | |
| Sep 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Callaway, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 1495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
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, 4:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 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 39 minutes 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, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Osage | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.