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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 17, 1992Cooper County, Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1992, 2:04 PM CDT for Cooper County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1992, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cooper County, MO, Morgan County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 1992-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 291 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 1992-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 364 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-406 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
364 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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

Local storm report, Jun 17, 2:01 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
 155 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992

 THE DAMAGE REPORTED 2 MI SOUTH OF SAVANNAH AT 235 AM THIS MORNING
(JUNE 17) ATTRIBUTED TO A POSSIBLE TORNADO HAS BEEN SURVEYED AND
DETERMINED TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY A DOWNBURST.  ACTUAL LOCATION
OF DAMAGE IS 2 MI NW SAVANNAH...ALSO TREE DAMAGE IN SAVANNAH.

...ABOVE IS UPDATE OF STORM REPORT ISSUED AT 545 AM THIS MORNING...

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:02 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXAndrew, DeKalb28 min
Jun 17, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone56 min
Jun 17, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries, Osage46 min
Jun 17, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGasconade, Maries27 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.