Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1992, 8:35 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1992, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stevens County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 070136 SVRDDC KSC189-070215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 835 PM CDT THU AUG 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY AT 834 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF HUGOTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWN OF HUGOTON BY 845 AND MOSCOW BY 855 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THE TOWNS OF HUGOTON AND MOSCOW...AND NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY SHOULD SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. 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. VAN TRESS
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 6, 7:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-070130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 732 PM CDT THU AUG 6 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 730 PM CDT (630 PM MDT) A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER FROM 15 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE TO 10 MILES WEST OF ELKHART. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH...AND SHOULD BE IN THE ELKHART...SAUNDERS...AND COOLIDGE AREAS BY 745 PM. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...EXPECT HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIBERAL...MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF THE STORM HOLDS ITS PRESENT TRACK...IT SHOULD PASS 5 TO 10 MILES TO THE WEST OF LIBERAL BY 8 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL IT PASSES. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR STAFFORD...PRATT...AND BARBER COUNTIES TONIGHT... HANSON
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 8:25 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-070230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 824 PM CDT THU AUG 6 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE GAINING STRENGTH ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 820 PM CDT (720 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING ACROSS THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF LIBERAL...5 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES...5 MILES WEST OF HUGOTON...AND 10 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE. ALL THESE STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM NEAR SYRACUSE WILL BE OVER OPEN FARMLAND BY 830 PM CDT...AND WILL MOVE OUT OF HAMILTON COUNTY BY 845 PM CDT. THE STORM NEAR ULYSSES WILL PASS THROUGH ULYSSES BY 840 PM CDT...AND THE STORM NEAR LIBERAL WILL PASS THROUGH...OR JUST TO THE WEST OF LIBERAL BY 840 PM CDT ALSO. THE TOWN OF HUGOTON WILL ALSO BE SEEING SOME HEAVY RAINS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL BY 840 PM CDT. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PROCUDING TORRENTIAL RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL. PERSONS LIVING OR TRAVELING NEAR THESE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER STIUATION...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PRATT...STAFFORD...AND BARBER COUNTIES TONIGHT. TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THESE STORMS...AND POSSIBLET WARNINGS. VAN TRESS
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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.