Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1992, 2:16 PM CST for Audrain County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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
- Mar 6, 1992, 2:16 PM CST (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1992, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Audrain County, MO, Callaway County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Callaway, MO | |
| Mar 6, 2:31 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Audrain, MO | |
| Mar 6, 2:47 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Audrain, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
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, Mar 6, 1:45 PM CST, 31 minutes before
MOZ-003-005-062030-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
135 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992
AT 130 PM THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY...AND SHOWERS WERE OCCURING
OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...SOUTHERN IOWA...
NORTHWEST...CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI.
THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI...
THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL SIZE HAIL AND BIEF HEAVY RAINS. THE AREA
OF PRECIPITATION WAS MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF
ST JOSEPH TO 40 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY.
ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER
EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS...ALONG THE KANSAS/NEBRASKA BORDECR...NEAR
HIAWATHA.
MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
..HM..The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 12:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Montgomery, Osage | 45 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.