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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 25, 1992Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1992, 6:55 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 25, 1992, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 25, 7:00 PM CDTHail 1Finney, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 1992-07-25Temperature 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 1992-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 252356
SVRDDC
KSC055-260100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
655 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING
ACROSS THE FINNEY COUNTY LINE FROM SCOTT AND LANE COUNTIES. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL REACH
KALVESTA AROUND 715 PM...GARDEN CITY AND HOLCOMB BY 730 TO 740PM CDT.
 
THESE STORMS ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.  THEY HAD PRODUCED GRAPEFRUIT
SIZED HAIL AT SCOTT CITY.  YOU SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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 25, 4:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ003-252245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
444 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 440 PM CDT...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS RADIDLY DEVELOPING
15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AND SHOULD
CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF KEARNY COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT.
VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES
WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.

THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP WEST OF A GARDEN CITY
TO LIBERAL LINE THROUGH THROUGH 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING.  IF YOU LIVE IN
SOUTHWEST KANSAS...YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS THIS EVENING.

MB
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
KSZ003-006-252345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
546 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 540 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS TO THE WEST OF THE
DODGE CITY AREA.  THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 20
MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST
OF THE TOWN OF LAKIN AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES OR OVER NORTHEAST
MORTON COUNTY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF KANSAS.  THESE STORMS WERE
DRIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE
INTO THE GARDEN CITY AREA BY AROUND 630 PM CDT WHILE THE STORM IN MORTON
COUNTY MOVES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES
WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS.  IN ADDITION THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF A JETMORE TO LIBERAL
LINE THROUGH 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING.  IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHWEST
KANSAS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING W6EATHER APPROACHES.

MB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny58 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.