Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 1992, 7:17 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 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
- Sep 20, 1992, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pettis County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Pettis, 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 210018 TORCOU MOC159-210045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 717 PM CDT SUN SEP 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN PETTIS COUNTY AT 712 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF SEDALIA NEAR HUGHSVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT d30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A TABLE OR STURDY FURNITURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LA GREE
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 42 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, 41 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.