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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 6, 1992Audrain County, Callaway County, Missouri

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 6, 2:30 PM CSTHail 0.75Callaway, MO
Mar 6, 2:31 PM CSTHail 0.75Audrain, MO
Mar 6, 2:47 PM CSTHail 0.75Audrain, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 745 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 1992-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 295 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
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

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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, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 12:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone54 min
Mar 6, 12:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAudrain68 min
Mar 6, 1:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMontgomery, Osage45 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.