Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1992, 2:04 PM CDT for Boone 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
County Boone County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 171906 SVRCOU MOC019-053-141-172000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 204 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BOONE COUNTY...EASTERN COOPER COUNTY ...NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY AT 205 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF SEDALIA AND MOVING SOUTHEAST. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 4O MPH. 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. PERLOW/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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Morgan | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries, Osage | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Maries | 27 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.