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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 15, 1992Montgomery County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1992, 2:39 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 1992, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 305 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 590 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 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
590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 15, 2:20 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
MOZ001-004-008-013-KSZ016-151945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
215 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992

AT 210 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF
MOUND CITY KANSAS IN LINN COUNTY...50 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHANUTE
KANSAS.  THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR
AND COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
FOR PERSONS IN LINN AND MIAMI COUNTIES IN KANSAS AND SOUTHERN
CASS COUNTY IN MISSOURI.

A SECOND STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF MOUND CITY
MISSOURI IN HOLT COUNTY...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND COULAD
PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FOR PERSONS
IN HOLT AND NODAWAY COUNTIES IN MISSOURI.

GH/TD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 12:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Callaway34 min
Apr 15, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCallaway, Osage40 min
Apr 15, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Moniteau46 min
Apr 15, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline26 min
Apr 15, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton23 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.