Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1992, 7:58 PM CDT for Finney County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Finney County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Finney, KS | |
| Jul 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hodgeman, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 260058 SVRDDC KSC055-083-260145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 758 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN FINNEY COUNTY...WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A HUGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST FINNEY COUNTY MOVING EASTWARD INTO WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KALVESTA. THE STORMS WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH KALVESTA BY 805 PM CDT. THE STORM WILL BE RUMBLING ACROSS WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY FARMLAND BY 715 PM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. YOU SHOULD TAKE SAFE SHELTER FROM THE STORM IMMEDIATELY. LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST ON THE STORM. 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.
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, 3 hours 13 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, 2 hours 10 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, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 69 min |
| Jul 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 55 min |
| Jul 25, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 57 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.