Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1992, 6:10 AM CDT for Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas; Clay County, Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1992, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1992, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Clay County, MO, Platte County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 071111 SVRMCI KSC091-103-209-MOC095-165-047-071145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 610 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY...LEAVENWORTH COUNTY ...WYANDOTTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...NORTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTY...PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY AT 605 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ON RADAR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. A WIND GUST TO 47 MILES AN HOUR OCCURED AT THE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SHORTLY BEFORE 6 AM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY!
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 7, 3:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-KZ015-070935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 335 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 AM CDT... AT 330 AM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI AROUND 415 AM CDT. THESE STORM ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING. GH
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:38 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-009-KZ015-070935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 530 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... AT 530 AM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND 70 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES WEST OF LAMONI IOWA TO TOPEKA KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORS WERE 20 MILES WEST OF PLATTE COUNTY MISSOURI OR 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE IOWA BORDER WEST OF LAMONI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD bBRING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO PLATTE CITY MISSOURI BY 600 AM CDT GH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992Severe 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.