Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 5:23 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 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, 10.4 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 042225 SVRDDC KSC175-042330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 523 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SEWARD COUNTY INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITIES ...LIBERAL AND KISMET AT 520 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALMOST STATIONARY OVER CENTRAL SEWARD COUNTY. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO BE VERY DANGEROUS WITH REPORTS OF UP TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AT 511 PM CDT 13 MILES NORTH OF LIBERAL AND WINDS OF 65 MILES AN HOUR AT 512 PM CDT 9 MILES NORTH OF LIBERAL. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS AND IS LIKELY TO CAUSE FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS AND URBAN AREAS. REMEMBER...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS IN YOUR CAR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS 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. 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, 3:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 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, 58 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
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 5:03 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 458 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 542 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING SOUTHWEST KANSAS COUNTIES: MORTON GRANT GRAY HODGEMAN KIOWA STANTON STEVENS HASKELL CLARK COMANCHE SEWARD MEADE PAWNEE KEARNEY FINNEY FORD EDWARDS SOME CITIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE: DODGE CITY GARDEN CITY LIBERAL ELKHART GREENSBURG LARNED ULYSSES A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS FOURTH OF JULY SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION. TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL ME.DIA...OR NOAA WEAHTER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS. VAN TRESS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 46 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.