Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Dodge City, KS
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Finney, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 58 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.