Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 1992, 6:07 PM CDT for St. Clair County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1992, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Clair County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 092307 TORMCI MOC185-092345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 607 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHEASTERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT RARAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF COLLINS IN ST CLAIR COUNTY...50 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF COLLINS BETWEEN 615 AND 630 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR jPIECE 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 35 min |
| Sep 9, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 36 min |
| Sep 9, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 48 min |
| Sep 9, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 34 min |
| Sep 9, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 28 min |
| Sep 9, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 32 min |
| Sep 9, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 33 min |
| Sep 9, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Moniteau, Morgan | 52 min |
| Sep 9, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Morgan | 40 min |
| Sep 9, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway | 40 min |
| Sep 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 63 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.