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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 1992Sullivan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 9:06 AM CDT for Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 16, 1992, 9:06 AM CDT (14:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1992, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Sullivan County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 9:45 AM CDT	Hail 1	Sullivan, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 2744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 301 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.3
Supercell composite: 24.9

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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, Jun 16, 3:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 8:50 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
836 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTH CEMTRAL
MISSOURI UNTIL 11AM CDT...

AT 830AM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTROMS WERE NOTED OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
NEAR  SPICKARD AND HARRIS MISSOURI /80 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY\.
REPORTS FROM THE SHERRIFS OFFICE IN PRINCETON MISSOURI REPORTES SMALL
HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  A REPORT FROM SPICKARD.. HAIL UP TO QUARTER
SIZE WAS REPORTED AT 815 AM.
ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS NOTED 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...
NORTHWEST OF CARROLLTON.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
kAS THESE STORMS APPROACH..YOU SHOULD GO TO  INSIDE TO A SAFE PLACE
AND IF DRIVING DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER.

Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:55 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
850 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

TIME              EVENT                            LOCATION

815 AM CDT    QUARTER SIZE HAIL,                NORTH OF SPICKARD, MO.
              THUNDERSTORM WARNING               MERCER COUNTY
              WAS IN EFFECT AT TIME
.END

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway, Worth	39 min
Jun 16, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	31 min
Jun 16, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	45 min
Jun 16, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	38 min
Jun 16, 9:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	43 min
Jun 16, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	40 min
Jun 16, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	51 min
Jun 16, 11:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	43 min
Jun 16, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	42 min
Jun 16, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	29 min

Nearby

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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.