Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1992, 2:56 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1992, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1992, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 031956
SVRSGF
MOC009-032100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
256 PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
BARRY
AT 255 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO WESTERN BARRY COUNTY. THE FOLLOWING TOWNS ARE IN THE
PATH...CASSVILE WASHBURN THE THE RECREATION AREA OF ROARING RIVER
AND EAGLE ROCK ON TABLE ROCK LAKE.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIhN.
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.
TIONAL CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT
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, Aug 3, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 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, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 61 min |
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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.