Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Saint Charles County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, Jul 11, 3:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
MOZ012-112145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 348 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY 20 MILES SOUTH OF ST LOUIS... AT 345 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY NEAR CRYSTAL CITY. THIS IS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN ST LOUIS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PASS NORTHEAST JEFFERSON AND EXTREME SOUTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...AND NORTHERN MONROE AND WESTERN ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS...BETWEEN 340 AND 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON. AT 345 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...BUT HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED AS IT PASSES OVER AN AREA. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO AN STURDY PERMANENT SHELTER TO REDUCE THEIR CHANCES OF BEING INJURED BY LIGHTNING. TRUETT
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ012-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 429 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... AT 425 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS EXTREME EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. ONE LONE STORM WAS ALONG THE MONROE-ST CLAIR COUNTY LINE IN ILLINOIS...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN ST LOUIS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PASS THROUGH ST CLAIR COUNTY BETWEEN 425 AND 515 PM. THE SECOND AREA OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF DOWNTOWN ST LOUIS...ACROSS ST LOUIS COUNTY...TO EXTREME NORTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST LOUIS. THIS AREA OF STORMS WAS ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST...AND WILL BE PASSING THROUGH ST LOUIS COUNTY AND CITY BETWEEN 425 AND 530 PM. AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS DETECTED...HOWEVER...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORMS PASS OVER AN AREA. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION...MOVE TO A STURDY PERMANENT SHELTER. DO NOT TAKE COVER UNDER A TREE....OR OTHER TALL OBJECT. TRUETT/FERRY
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
MOZ009-010-013-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 430 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 425 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM NEAR SEDALIA TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEDALIA AROUND GLASGOW MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEDALIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED HEAVY RAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL STRETCH FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA NEAR MOBERLY TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA BY 530 PM. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INSIDE IF THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR IF NECESSARY WARNINGS. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
MOZ009-010-013-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 505 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 1000PM... AT 500 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM NEAR SEDALIA TO ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 TO 20 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR BOONVILLE. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS CAPABLE OF INTENSIFYING AND PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. EXPECT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ALSO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH BOONE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF COLUMBIA BETWEEN 515 AND 545 PM. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INSIDE IF THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR IF NECESSARY WARNINGS. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
MOZ012-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 508 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL... EAST CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM... AT 5 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER FROM WEST OF COLUMBIA TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF ST LOUIS. STORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR A GOOD PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI AND PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MI,SSOURI. IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:54 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
MOZ007-011-012-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 653 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EASTERN MISSOURI... AT 650 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EASTERN MISSOURI FROM THE CENTRAL COUNTIES. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WAS OVER WARREN AND LINCOLN COUNTIES...OR ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING PARTS OF WARREN...LINCOLN...AND PIKE COUNTIES BETWEEN 650 PM AND 8 PM THIS EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS...AND PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING AND DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION TO STRONG WINDS AND HAIL...THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS. TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 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.