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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 2, 1992Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1992, 4:13 PM CDT for Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 17 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 1992, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 268 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 022114
TORCOU
MOC019-027-022145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
413 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...EAST CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY...WESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST 1 MILE EAST OF THE
CITY OF COLUMBIA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN
THE COMMUNITIES OF STEPHENS LINDBERGH...AND MILLERSBURG WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM.
 
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.

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, 4:20 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

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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.