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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 7, 1992Boone County, Howard County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1992, 6:47 PM CDT for Boone County, Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 1992, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, MO, Howard County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 266 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: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 072348
TORCOU
MOC019-089-080030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
647 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN BOONE COUNTY...EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING A
TORNADO LOCATED LESS THAN 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA AND JUST EAST
OF FRANKLIN IN HOWARD COUNTY. A NUMBER OF FUNNELS HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS WHEN THIS STORM MOVED THROUGH SALINE AND HOWARD COUNTIES.
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA IS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING.
 
 B
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.
GS/LB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	45 min
Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	30 min
Sep 7, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	44 min
Sep 7, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	31 min
Sep 7, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	46 min
Sep 7, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	44 min
Sep 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	37 min
Sep 7, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Howard, Saline	34 min
Sep 7, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	46 min
Sep 7, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Randolph	36 min
Sep 7, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.