Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1992, 3:26 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1992, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seward County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 172027 SVRDDC KSC175-172115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 326 PM CDT FRI JUL 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES OVER SEWARD COUNTY. AT 325 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM 12 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE TOWN OF HAYNE ON HIGHWAY 54 BY 4 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...ALONG WITH HIGH WINDS. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE SHELTER NOW!! SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR( OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS. HANSON
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, 4 hours 25 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 64 min |
| Jul 17, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.