Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 2:31 PM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1992, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 161933 SVRCOU MOC121-162000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 231 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...MACON COUNTY AT 230 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN CENTRAL MACON COUNTY...20 MILES SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE. THE STORM SHOWED ONLY A SLIGHT EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF 10 TO 15 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL. MORE LIKELY WAS THE THREAT OF VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS OF HIGHWAY OR SMALL STREAMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITHOUT ADVANCE WARNING. STAY CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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
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, 8:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 41 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, 5 hours 36 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
.ENDSpecial weather statement, Jun 16, 9:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 935 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTH CEMTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 11AM CDT... TWO AREAS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI...MAINLY TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY IN THE TRENTON AND CARROLLTON AREAS. HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THESE AREAS...PARTICULARLY BETWEEN TRENTON AND MILAN...AND JUST NORTH OF CARROLTON.
Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
1025 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992
TIME EVENT LOCATION
945 AM CDT 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY BETWEEN MILAN AND
SULLIVAN COUNTY SHERIFF BROWNING IN SULLIVAN
COUNTY
.ENDThe 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, 9:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 39 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.