Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1992, 4:32 AM CDT for Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 8, 1992, 4:32 AM CDT (09:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1992, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:00 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Pratt, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 080934 SVRDDC KSC151-185-081015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 432 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY AT 430 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE PRATT/STAFFORD COUNTY LINE ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF PRATT. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NEOLA AND PRESTON ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM AND CAN EXPECT SEVERE WEATHER IN THE AREA BY 445 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 MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Sep 8, 4:14 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
KSZ006-009-081015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 412 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY GAINED STRENGTH... AT 407 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
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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.