Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 1992, 6:47 PM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- Sep 20, 1992, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1992, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, KS, Jackson County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Jackson, MO | |
| Sep 20, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Jackson, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 202347 TORMCI KSC091-MOC095-210045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 647 PM CDT SUN SEP 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 645 PM CDT KANSAS CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR 75 TH ST BETWEEN RAYTOWN AND LEE'S SUMMIT MISSOURI. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 20, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-0009-013-202345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RAD SUMMARY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 530 PM CDT SUN SEP 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 525 PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AND AROUND LAWRENCE KANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE GREATER KANSAS CITY AREA BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM. PERSONS IN WESTERN JOHNSON AND WYANDOTTE COUNTIES OF KANSAS SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE CONTINUING OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...MAINLY NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH AND IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...JUST NORTHEAST OF BUTLER. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 6:36 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-0009-013-210045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RAD SUMMARY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 635 PM CDT SUN SEP 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH KANSAS CITY... AT 625 PM ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. NEAR GRANDVIEW AND LEES SUMMIT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME ROADWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR KANSAS CITY. THE WATCH ALSO INCLUDES WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. AT 632 JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS REPORTED NUMEROUS DAMAGE SOUTH OF OLATHE. TREES...POWERS LINES AND GAS LINES BROKEN. THUNDERSTORS WERE CONTINUING IN AROUND OLATHE. TAKE COVER NOW.
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.