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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 4, 1992Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 4:57 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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
Jul 4, 1992, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Seward County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 4, 5:30 PM CDTHail 1Seward, KS

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1992-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2255 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1992-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
15.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 042158
SVRDDC
KSC175-042245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
457 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY
 
AT 455 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6
MILES NORTH OF LIBERAL MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL
REACH HAYNES BY 505 PM CDT AND THE CIMARRON RIVER BY 515 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR OTHER STURDY SHELTER.
 
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM
CDT THIS SATURDAY EVENING...
 
 
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.
 
JOHNSON

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, Jul 4, 11:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-042200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
1105 AM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS:

BARBER      FINNEY      HAMILTON      KIOWA        PRATT      STEVENS
CLARK       FORD        HASKELL       MEADE        SEWARD
COMANCHE    GRANT       HODGEMAN      MORTON       STAFFORD
EDWARDS     GRAY        KEARNY        PAWNEE       STANTON

SYNOPSIS: HOT...UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE REGION COULD COUPLE UP WITH
A COLORADO DRY LINE TO PRODUCE THE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM FOR LATE
AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.  HIGH WINDS AND HAIL WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS TYPE OF STORM.  THE GREATEST THREAT IS WEST OF GARDEN CITY AND
LIBERAL.

SOME SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN COUNTIES.
JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 3:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KSZ003-042200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
345 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992

AT 345 PM CDT (245 PM MDT)...RADAR SHOWED A LONE THUNDERSTORM ON THE
COLORADO LINE 25 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF ELKHART.  THE STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS THE OPEN FARM
LAND OF NORTHERN MORTON COUNTY BY 445 PM CDT (345 PM MDT).

ADDITIONALLY...A RAINSHOWER WAS DEVELOPING 20 MILES WEST OF LIBERAL
AND WILL REACH THE LIBERAL AREA...POSSIBLY AS A THUNDERSTORM...BY
430 PM CDT.

THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS
...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.  IF YOU ARE IN OR
NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORMS...BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.

JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:25 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
KSZ003-042230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
425 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 425 PM CDT (325 PM MDT)...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY BUILDING
AND RAPIDLY DISSIPATING OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS
RIVER AND WEST OF A LINE FOM GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL.  THE STORMS WERE
MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE IN
SUBLETTE...SATANTA AND LIBERAL BY 445 PM CDT.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 10 MILES WEST OF LIBERAL AND 15 MILES NORTH
NORTHEAST OF ELKHART.  THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY
RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...LOTS OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...STAY ALERT.  BE
PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR OTHER STURDY
STRUCTURE.

JOHNSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens46 min
Jul 4, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward67 min
Jul 4, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade65 min
Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.