Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1992, 7:41 PM CDT for Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1992, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 080043 TORCOU MOC019-027-080115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 741 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...EAST CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTY AT 735PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND CONVENTIONAL RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO STILL FORMING JUST NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA. NUMEROUS REPORTS FROM SPOTTERS ALSO INDICATED FUNNEL CLOUDS FROM THIS STORM. NONE HAVE TOUCHED DOWN YET BUT THAT IS STILL A VERY GOOD POSSIBILITY. HOLIDAY TRAVELERS ALONG INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN KINGDOM CITY AND COLUMBIA SHOULD BE ALERT TO THIS STORM AND STOP AND TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON TH2E LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS OR MOBILE HOMES AND TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING OR GET IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. STANLEY/LARM
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 7, 2:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-008-072040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 233 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 225 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS ...JUST NORTH OF LAWRENCE. BECAUSE THE AIR OVER EAST KANSAS AND WEST MISSOURI IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AREA UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI...WEST AND NORTH OF COLUMBIA. THIS STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 312 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 310 PM...THE STORMS IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA AND TO THE WEST HAVE WEAKENED SINCE 230 PM. THESE STORMS WERE STILL PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVED EAST AT 35 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE METRO AREA THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI...WEST AND NORTH OF COLUMBIA. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
MOZ008-009-KSZ016-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 400 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 1000 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH HALF OF CLAY COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM... AT 355 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF LIBERTY MISSOURI MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE METRO AREA THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IN A STRONG BUILDING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cooper, Moniteau | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway | 48 min |
| Sep 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Osage | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.