Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1992, 3:14 PM CDT for Boone County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1992, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 152015 SVRCOU MOC019-135-152100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 314 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BOONE COUNTY...MONITEAU COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH BOONE AND MONITEAU COUNTIES FROM AROUND COLUMBIA TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA AROUND CALIFORNIA AND HIGH POINT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ONE INCH TO AN INCH AND HALF HAIL WAS REPORTED ON THE WEST EDGE OF COLUMBIA AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WERE REPORTED ON THE EAST EDGE OF COLUMBIA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND NEAR 60 MPH OR MORE... LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS CAN REDUCE VISIBILITY AND FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY. DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND AVOID DRIVING INTO AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LARM/STANLEY
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, 54 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
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 2:44 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-KSZ016-152015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 245 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992 AT 230 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS HOLT COUNTY MISSOURI NEAR MOUND CITY...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN HOLT AND NODAWAY COUNTIES IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KANSAS...WESTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN IOWA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. HINNERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Callaway | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway, Osage | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.