Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1992, 10:46 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1992, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morton County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 040347 SVRDDC KSC129-040430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1046 PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...MORTON COUNTY AT 945 PM MDT (1045 PM CDT)...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF ELKHART...OR 10 MILES WEST OF RICHFIELD. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL BE NEAR RICHFIELD BY 1015 PM MDT (1115 PM CDT). PERSONS IN RICHFIELD SHOULD BE READY FOR STRONG AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. 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. LETRO
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 3, 10:26 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
KSZ003-040430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1025 PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PUSHING INTO ELKHART AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1020 PM CDT (920 PM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF COLORADO INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST CORNER OF KANSAS. THE LINE WAS AROUND 30 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM AROUND LAMAR THROUGH WALSH AND ON TO BOISE CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE LINE WAS CREEPING EAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 10 MILES WEST OF ELKHART AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART. RAIN WAS FALLING AT ELKHART...SAUNDERS...MANTER AND RICHFIELD AND WILL REACH JOHNSON CITY AND ROLLA BY 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT). THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND A LOT OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. JOHNSON
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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.