Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 2:28 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 101929 SVRSTL MOC179-102015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 228 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...SOUTHEASTERN REYNOLDS COUNTY AT 220 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST REYNOLDS COUNTY...FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST REDFORD OR 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROLLA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO CLEARWATER LAKE AREA BETWEEN 230 AND 245 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DM/RP
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Aug 10, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
ILC001-MOC045-199-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 115 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 111 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINCY...ILLINOIS OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEMPHIS...MISSOURI. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI BY 125 PM. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. METZE
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:32 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
MOC099-123-179-189-186-101930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 131 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS... AT 126 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ROLLING ACROSS JEFFERSON...IRON...AND SAINT FRANCIS COUNTIES. THEY WERE ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS NEAR DESOTO AND BONNE TERRE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO ST. GE2NEVIEVE AND MADISON COUNTIES AROUND 135 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. METZE
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:10 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MOC001-103-197-199-205-102015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 208 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 206 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE OR 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUINCY...ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE COUNTIES OF ADAIR AND MACON AROUND THREE O'pCLOCK. PEOPLE KNOX COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. METZE ...NEXT UPDATE AROUND 3 PM...
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:13 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
MOC001-103-197-199-205-102015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 208 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 206 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE OR 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINCY...ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE COUNTIES OF ADAIR AND MACOxN AROUND THREE O'CLOCK. PEOPLE KNOX COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. METZE ...NEXT UPDATE AROUND 3 PM...
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:21 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 215 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REDEVELOPED OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM... AT 215 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REDEVELOPED ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES EAST OF KIRSVILLE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE. RESIDENTS IN NORTH CENTR~AL MISSOURI SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
MOZ003-006-007-008-009-010-011-012-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 224 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK THIS EVENING... AT 218 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE FIRST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE AND MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROLLA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI SHOULD BE ON THE OUTLOOK FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. METZE
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Pike | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Marion, Ralls | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.