Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 6:01 AM CDT for Scotland County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 6:01 AM CDT (11:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 6:37 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scotland County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 2221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 291104 SVRSTL MOC199-291145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 601 AM CDT WED JUL 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...NORTHERN SCOTLAND COUNTY AT 555 AM...NWS DOPPLER INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE MISSOURI...IOWA BORDER 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING 35 MPH TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH HITT AROUND 615 AND THEN THROUGH MEMPHIS AROUND 620 TO 630. WINDS TO 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. TUCKER
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 29, 4:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
MOZ001>012-291500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 348 AM CDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHER AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI THIS MORNING... SATELLITE AND RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AND POSSIBLY DEVELOP SLIGHTLY SOUTH. IT APPEARS THAT SOME OF THE STORMS WILL JUST REACH EXTREME NORTHERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME NORTHEAST MISSOURI THIS MORNING. THE COUNTIES MOST LIKELY AFFECTED WILL BE PUTNAM...SCHUYLER SCOTLAND AND CLARK. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE. PERSONS IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI CAN EXPECT STORMS THAT WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY STRONG WINDS LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALSO...SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON THURSDAY. TUCKER X
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark | 44 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.