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Tornado Warning 9, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 15, 1992Adair County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1992, 9:58 PM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1992, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1992, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Adair County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1992-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4592 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1992-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4592 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 160258
TORSTL
MOC001-160330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
958 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...EASTERN ADAIR COUNTY
 
AT 955 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 3 MILES NORTH OF KIRKSVILLE.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
EHG

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSchuyler, Scotland57 min
Jul 15, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXKnox64 min
Jul 15, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXShelby45 min
Jul 15, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis49 min
Jul 15, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion41 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.