Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT for Barton County, Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 69 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, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 8:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Barton, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 2916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 100106
SVRSGF
MOC011-057-100215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
806 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
EASTERN BARTON...DADE
AT 8 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EASTE
R BARTON COUNTY 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF JOPLIN NEAR LAMAR TO 25 MILES
NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD. THE STORMS HAD PRODUCED HAIL TO LARGER THAN
ONE INCH.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWNS
OF GREENFIELD AND GOLDEN CITY WERE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
BAREISWhat 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, 2:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 215 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 215 PM...ONLY A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BY LATE AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS KANSAS AND MISSOURI AND INTO THE OZARKS BY EARLY THIS EVENING. LAKE WIND ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTEROON... WITH WINDS FROM THE SOUTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY. SIMKULET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 43 min |
| Sep 9, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Lawrence, Newton | 57 min |
| Sep 9, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone, Webster | 56 min |
| Sep 9, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 56 min |
| Sep 10, 12:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.