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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 9, 1992Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1992, 4:36 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 1992, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1992, 5:10 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Platte County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 1992-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 092137
SVRMCI
MOC165-092230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
436 PM CDT THU APR 9 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY
 
NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE LEAVONWORTH COUNTY EOC AT 427 PM
NORTHEAST OF ATCHISON IN EXTREME NORTHEAST ATCHISON COUNTY. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND IT WILL TRACK ACROSS NORTHERN
PLATTE COUNTY...NORTH OF THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. SOME
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE WESTON...WOODRUFF...AND CAMDEN
POINT.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
DESTRI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 4:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHickory67 min
Apr 9, 4:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden, Miller67 min
Apr 9, 6:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPulaski29 min
Apr 9, 7:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHickory26 min
Apr 9, 8:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton31 min
Apr 9, 8:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden33 min
Apr 9, 8:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan20 min
Apr 9, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline54 min
Apr 9, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis31 min
Apr 9, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper37 min
Apr 9, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller, Moniteau26 min
Apr 9, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller54 min
Apr 9, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper43 min
Apr 9, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone46 min
Apr 9, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPulaski45 min
Apr 9, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Howard62 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.