Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 3:50 PM CDT for Audrain County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 2, 1992, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Audrain County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 4381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 022051 SVRCOU MOC007-022130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 350 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN AUDRAIN COUNTY AT 345PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTHEAST OF CENTRALIA OF 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY AND WILL STAY JUST NORTH OF MEXICO BUT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH LADDONIA AND VANDALIA BY 415 OR 430 PM. 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. LAGREE/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
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:40 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 335 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE EAST OF KANSAS CITY... AT 330 PM...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS LOCATED EAST OF KANSAS CITY FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF BLUE SPRINGS NORTHEASTWARD TO NEAR RICHMOND AND TO JUST WEST OF CARROLLTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT RAY AND CARROLL COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES OR SO. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN THE IMMEDIATE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFLECT UNTIL 9 PM. PEOPLE IN KANSAS CITY AND OVER MUCH OF THE REST OF WEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:48 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
345 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992
...SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR JULY 2, 1992...
TIME EVENT LOCATION
315 PM CDT ONE-INCH HAIL. RAY CO. MO. NORTH
SIDE OF RICHMOND.
335 PM CDT 3/4 INCH HAIL. CARROLL CO. MO.
p NEAR NORBORNE.
.ENDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 56 min |
| Jul 2, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone, Callaway | 17 min |
| Jul 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cooper, Howard | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Callaway | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.