Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 7:27 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 10, 1992, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Finney County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:34 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 00:00Z, 0.5 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
- 4174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 110027 SVRDDC KSC055-110100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 727 PM CDT MON AUG 10 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 ...FINNEY COUNTY AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY ALONG HIGHWAY 50 AND THE BYPASS EASTWARD TO NEAR THE GARDEN CITY ARIPORT. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED AT 725 PM IN HOLCOMB AND DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED 6 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY AT THE SAME TIME. 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, Aug 10, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 320 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING FROM GARDEN CITY AND LIBERAL WESTWARD... AT 320 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST COLORADO SLOWLY BUILDING INTO PARTS OF EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS. VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE IN WESTERN KANSAS COULD LEAD TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THE EVENING IS OUT. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 FROM GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL... THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLORADO WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SYRACUSE AREA BETWEEN 5 AND 530 PM CDT (4 AND 430 PM MDT). BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...OR IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OR TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION< ON THIS DEVELOP WEATHER SITUATION. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ003-102230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 421 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS... AT 415 PM CDT (315 PM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. THESE STRONG STORMS WERE 55 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY OR AROUND 8 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH SYRACUSE BY AROUND 345 PM MDT (445 PM CDT). THE REST OF THE STORMS WILL STAY GENERALLY OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN IN HAMILTON COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS SOME HAIL. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT) ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 FROM GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ003-102230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO EXPARATION TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 432 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS... AT 415 PM CDT (315 PM MDT)...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. THESE STRONG STORMS WERE 55 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY OR AROUND 8 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH SYRACUSE BY AROUND 345 PM MDT (445 PM CDT). THE REST OF THE STORMS WILL STAY GENERALLY OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN IN HAMILTON COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS SOME HAIL. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT) ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 FROM GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 5:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
KSZ003-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 529 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AT THE COLORADO BORDER... AT 425 PM MDT (525 PM CDT)...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYRACUSE TO AROUND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON. THAT IS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES TO 40 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH SYRACUSE BY 430 PM MDT (530 PM CDT). THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS. LOCAL FLOODING OF ROAD DITCHES IS LIKELY AND DRIVERS ALONG HIGHWAY 50 ARE URGE TO USE CAUTION. VISIBILITIES IN THESE TORRENTIAL RAINS MAY REACH ZERO IN PLACES. MEANWHILE...A NEW THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AROUND 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY IN NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY. dNO MOVEMENT HAD YET BEEN OBSERVED BY THE DOPPLER RADAR. YOU SHOULD STAY ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 6:36 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
KSZ003-006-110030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT............CORRECTED ROUTING..... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 634 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO SPREAD FARTHER INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 635 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 18 MILES SOUTH OF JOHNSON CITY OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY TO 10 MILES NORTH OF JETMORE OR 30 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN OR 30 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL REACH JOHNSON CITY BY 640 PM...LAKIN BY 650 PM AND GARDEN CITY BY AROUND 730 PM. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. BECAUSE OF THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT...THE STORMS MAY CAUSE SOME BRIEF LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADSIDE DITCHES AND POSSIBLY SOME WASHOUTS ON DIRT ROADS. DRIVERS SHOULD BE PREP,ARED FOR SUDDEN AND DRASTIC DECREASES IN VISIBILITIES DUE TO THE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 8:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Finney | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 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.