Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1992, 2:47 PM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1992, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1992, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adair County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 3:16 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Adair, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 2283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 734 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 9, 9:47 AM CDT, 5 hours before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 9, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
MOZALL-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 110 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL...CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI FROM 145 PM UNTIL 9 PM CDT. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THEN MOVE THROUGH THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADDITIONAL WATCHES MAY BE ISSUED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS...WATCHES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 1:57 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-091930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 150 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 150 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF KIRKSVILLE...TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER...MOSTLY LIGHT SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS DEVELOPED VERY QUICKLY AND ARE EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PROPORTIONS BEFORE 3 PM. RESIDENTS IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF LINN...MACON AND CHARITON SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS...OR POSSIBLY TORNADOES. IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER...REPORT IT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAYj TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 2:35 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
MOZ003-006-007-011-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 233 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL TIL 900 PM CDT THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 230 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR AT ST. LOUIS SHOWED AN AREA OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST SCHUYLER COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF GLENDALE...ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE AND EASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY...ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES WEST OF KIRKSVILLE. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO THE TOWN OF KIRKSVILLE BETWEEN 245 AND 250 PM CDT. AT 230 PM THE MILAN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN SULLIVAN COUNTY REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP TUNE FOR LATER STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PRZYBYLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 48 min |
| Sep 9, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 66 min |
| Sep 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 49 min |
| Sep 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 45 min |
| Sep 9, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Sep 9, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 43 min |
| Sep 9, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 53 min |
| Sep 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 50 min |
| Sep 9, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.