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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 17, 1992Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1992, 1:57 PM CDT for Ford 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 17, 1992, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 17, 1:58 PM CDTHail 0.75Ford, 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 9 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 1992-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 17, 11:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-172200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
1100 AM CDT FRI JUL 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 WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS
WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO KEEP THE WIDELY
SCATTERED LIGHT RAINSHOWERS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING AFTER ABOUT 3 PM.

STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE HOWEVER...AND SPOTTER
ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
HANSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward64 min
Jul 17, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward49 min
Jul 17, 4:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord, Kiowa2 hr
Jul 17, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche63 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.