Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1992, 5:51 PM CDT for Clark County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1992, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1992, 6:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 369 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 252252 SVRSTL MOC045-252345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 551 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...CLARK COUNTY AT 546 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WESTERN CLARK COUNTY. THE TOWNS OF KAHOKA...MEDILL...AND REVERE ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS AND WILL ENTER THESE TOWNS BETWEEN 600 AND 610 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF BLINDING RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. AT 545 PM CDT..THE SCOTLAND COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES DOWN OVER THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. 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. PRZYBYLINSKI
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 25, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-252230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 430 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY SHOWERS ARE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 425 PM CDT COLUMBIAS RADAR SHOWED TWO AREAS...ABOUT 10 MILES WIDE... OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY SHOWERS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE FIRST AREA WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF SEDALIA OR JUST WEST OF SLATER TO 15 MILES NORTH OF SEDALIA..JUST NORTHEAST OF SWEET SPRINGS. THE SECOND AREA WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM 5 MILES WEST OF KIRKSVILLE TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA AROUND BYNUMVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WINDS GUSTING ABOVE 35 MPH AS WELL AS BRIEF DOWNPOURS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE CENTRAL MISSOURI COUNTIES OF SALINE..HOWARD..RANDOLPH..CHARITON AND MACON BY 530 PM CDT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS..".BUT CAUTION IS ADVISED FOR ALL IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER PLEASE CALL THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE FOR RELAY OF YOUR MESSAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LB
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adair | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Scotland | 54 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.