Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1992, 4:29 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 17, 1992, 4:29 PM CST (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1992, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 5:00 PM CST | Hail 1 | Barber, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 172230 SVRDDC KSC007-172315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 429 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN BARBER COUNTY AT 425 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH/NORTHWEST OF ANETNA...OR 31 MILES SOUTH/SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL BE ALONG HIGHWAY 160 NORTH OF DEERHEAD BY 5 PM. LARGE HAIL...HIGH WIND AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IDF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HUTTON
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, Mar 17, 10:55 AM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-172200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1055 AM CST TUE MAR 15 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: A COLD FRONT ALONG THE OKLAHOMA LINE AT LATE MORNING IS EXPECTED TO MOVE LITTLE THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE DISTRICT IS EXPECTED TO SUPPORT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AFTER MIDAFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY IN EXTREME EAST AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE DISTRICT. A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR STRONG STORM ACTIVITY WILL EXIST AT LATE AFTERNOON IN THE HILL COUNTRY SOUTH OF PRATT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED EXTREME SOUTHEAST LATE TODAY. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 11:58 AM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-172200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS...COR...DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1055 AM CST TUE MAR 17 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: A COLD FRONT ALONG THE OKLAHOMA LINE AT LATE MORNING IS EXPECTED TO MOVE LITTLE THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE DISTRICT IS EXPECTED TO SUPPORT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AFTER MIDAFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY IN EXTREME EAST AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE DISTRICT. A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR STRONG STORM ACTIVITY WILL EXIST AT LATE AFTERNOON IN THE HILL COUNTRY SOUTH OF PRATT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED EXTREME SOUTHEAST LATE TODAY. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 2:14 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
KSZ009-172100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 205 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS. IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...THE COUNTIES OF BARBER AND PRATT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. AS OF 2 PM CST...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS. HOWEVER AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AND MAY MOVE INTO BARBER OR PRATT COUNTIES. IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THE COUNTIES OF BARBER AND PRATT...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. IF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...YOU SHOULD BE PREP=ARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS OR IN A BASEMENT. ALSO...YOU SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MB
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 2:55 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ006-009-172200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 254 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA... AT 251 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...OR 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT, KS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH/NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST COMANCHE COUNTY BEFORE 315 PM. ALTHOUGH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NOT IN EFFECT FOR COMANCHE COUNTY...THIS STORM IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. IF YOU LIVE SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...BE PREPARED FOR VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING HAIL AND HIGH WIND. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 4:02 PM CST, 27 minutes before
KSZ003-009-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 401 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDESTORM IN COMANCHE COUNTY... AT 358 PM...A VERY STRONG AND RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...OR 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY AND CROSSING INTO BARBER COUNTY JUST NORTH OF ANETA BEFORE 415 PM. HAIL...HIGH WIND IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM. THREATENNING WEATHER IS POSSIBLE SO BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 54 min |
| Mar 17, 4:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 53 min |
| Mar 17, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 40 min |
| Mar 17, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.