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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 25, 1992Worth County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1992, 6:05 PM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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
Jul 25, 1992, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Worth County, MO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 25, 6:30 PM CDTTornado F0Worth, 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

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 63 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -158 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-105 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 KMCI 252307
TORMCI
MOC227-252330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
605 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...EASTERN WORTH COUNTY
 
AT 558 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND BY MISSOURI HIGHWAY
PATROL IN WORTH COUNTY ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANT CITY...ABOUT 50 
LNORTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR AND WAS MOVING ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WO2RKBENCH 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, Jul 25, 5:06 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-KSZ-016-252300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
500 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND
PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INCLUDING ST JOSEPH UNTIL 11PM...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST
KANSAS TONIGHT...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI.  THE
STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NODAWAY COUNTY NEAR BURLINGTON
JUNCTION...ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF ST JOSEPH.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES A HOUR.

IN ADDITION THE GROUND IS SATURATED OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...ANY
ADDITION RAIN COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
WATER COVERED ROADWAYS.

GH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.