Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1992, 6:07 PM CDT for Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1992, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newton County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 172307
SVRSGF
MOC145-180015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
607 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
NEWTON
AT 605 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR
JOPLIN TO 20 SOUTHWEST OF JOPLIN...NEAR SENECA. THE STORMS ARE
MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWNS OF
DIAMOND AND SENECA ARE IN THE PARTH OF THE 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.
SIMKULETWhat 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, Jun 17, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-172000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 225 PM CDT WED JUNE 17 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 225 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES WEST OF JOPLIN TO AROUND 75 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT...AND MAY INTENSIFY DURING THE MID AFTERN<OON HOURS...AS THEY MOVE INTO WARMER MORE HUMID CONDITIONS. WITH CURRENT MOVEMENT...THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO AROUND A JOPLIN... BOLIVAR LINE BY 400 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LATER WEATHER BULLETINS CONCERNING THE STORMS. SIMKULET
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-172230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 310 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 310 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTH- WEST OF SPRINGFIELD TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOPLIN. THESE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT...AND MAY INTENSIFY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...AS THEY MOVE INTO WARMER MORE HUMID CONDITIONS. WITH CURRENT MOVEMENT...THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO AROUND A JOPLIN... BOLIVAR LINE BY 345 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LATER WEATHER BULLETINS CONCERNING THE STORMS. MURPHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Jasper, Lawrence | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 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.