Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 4:48 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1992, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bates County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 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
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, Jul 2, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 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, 1 hour 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.
.ENDSpecial weather statement, Jul 2, 4:13 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 410 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 405 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY...GENERALLY FROM NEAR BUTLER WHICH IS ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY...TO NEAR CARROLLTON. ONE OF THE STORMS IN CARROLL COUNTY PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL AT 350 PM JUST WEST OF CARROLLTON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM...SO PEOPLE IN WEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. RM
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-013-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 425 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 425 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF BUTLER MISSOURI OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE ADRIAN AND AUSTIN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM FOR NORTHERN BATES COUNTY. STAY ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...NEAR CARROLLTON HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE 400 PM AS THEY MOVED NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. RH
The 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, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain | 40 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, 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
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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.