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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 9, 1992Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1992, 5:02 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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: Apr 9, 1992, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Cooper County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 9, 5:07 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Cooper, 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 12:00Z, 10.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1086 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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, Apr 9, 1:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:51 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Hickory	67 min
Apr 9, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden, Miller	67 min
Apr 9, 6:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pulaski	29 min
Apr 9, 7:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Hickory	26 min
Apr 9, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton	31 min
Apr 9, 8:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden	33 min
Apr 9, 8:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Morgan	20 min
Apr 9, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis, Saline	54 min
Apr 9, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	31 min
Apr 9, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	37 min
Apr 9, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miller, Moniteau	26 min
Apr 9, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miller	54 min
Apr 9, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	34 min
Apr 9, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone	46 min
Apr 9, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pulaski	45 min
Apr 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone, Howard	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.