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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 2, 1992Randolph County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 3:06 PM CDT for Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1992, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Randolph County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 275 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5739 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
5739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
10.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 022006
SVRCOU
MOC175-022100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
306 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...RANDOLPH COUNTY
 
AT 3PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA...NEAR
HIGBEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE CITY
OF MOBERLY BETWEEN 315 AND 330PM.
 
 
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 FLOODn
ROADS QUICKLY.  DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN  AND AVOID DRIVING INTO AREA
WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
LAGREE/LARM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHoward56 min
Jul 2, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Ray46 min
Jul 2, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone53 min
Jul 2, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll27 min
Jul 2, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAudrain40 min
Jul 2, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXBoone, Callaway17 min
Jul 2, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass25 min
Jul 2, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAudrain48 min
Jul 2, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates27 min
Jul 2, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline42 min
Jul 2, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Pettis50 min
Jul 2, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry33 min
Jul 2, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Cooper, Howard54 min
Jul 2, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXBoone32 min
Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAudrain, Callaway60 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.