Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1992, 1:41 AM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 2, 1992, 1:41 AM CDT (06:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1992, 2:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seward County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:41 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Seward, 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, 6.7 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
- 1110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 020641 SVRDDC KSC175-020730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 141 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN SEWARD COUNTY AT 138 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF KISMET IN NORTHEAST SEWARD COUNTY...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE KISMET AREA BY 150 AM. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE INTO HAYNE AREA...NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL SHORTLY AFTER 2 AM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MODVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HUTTON
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, Aug 2, 1:19 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
KSZ003-006-020715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 118 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 114 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST WAS 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY IN NORTHWEST MEADE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE IN THE MEADE VICINITY BY 130 AM. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTH OF LIBERAL... 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ULYSSES...AND 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... MAINLY WEST OF A JETMORE...DODGE CITY...ASHLAND LINE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MUCH OF THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. HUTTON
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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.