Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Dodge City, KS
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Seward, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 53 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.