Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1992, 1:59 PM CDT for McDonald County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1992, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDonald County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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, Aug 3, 1:35 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 130PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI FROM NEAR JOPLIN SOUTHWARD TO THE ARKANSAS STATE LINE. THESE STORMS HAD DROPPED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THEY ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LATER WEATHER BULLETINS CONCERNING THE STORMS. BAREIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 29 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.