Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1992, 1:13 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1992, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 281815 SVRDDC KSC047-281845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 113 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY AT 1:10 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE EDWARDS-HODGEMAN COUNTY BORDER...ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL BRING HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER TO THE AREA BETWEEN OFFERLE AND KINSLEY BY 1:30 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THE OFFERLE-KINSLEY AREA SHOULD BE READY FOR POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH. 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, Apr 28, 11:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-282200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1121 AM CDT MON APR 27 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS: BARBER FINNEY HAMILTON KIOWA PRATT STEVENS CLARK FORD HASKELL MEADE SEWARD COMANCHE GRANT HODGEMAN MORTON STAFFORD EDWARDS GRAY KEARNY PAWNEE STANTON SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST COLORADO AND A WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER ABOUT 2 PM. A FEW STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH THE MAIN THREAT FROM STRONG WIND. DUE TO THE EXPECTED WIDLEY SCATTERED NATURE OF THE STORMS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 11:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-282200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS...CORRECTED FOR DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1121 AM CDT TUE APR 28 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS: BARBER FINNEY HAMILTON KIOWA PRATT STEVENS CLARK FORD HASKELL MEADE SEWARD COMANCHE GRANT HODGEMAN MORTON STAFFORD EDWARDS GRAY KEARNY PAWNEE STANTON SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST COLORADO AND A WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER ABOUT 2 PM. A FEW STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH THE MAIN THREAT FROM STRONG WIND. DUE TO THE EXPECTED WIDLEY SCATTERED NATURE OF THE STORMS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 12:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-281815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1206 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992 AT 1201 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM...WITH HEAVY RAIN...15 MILES WEST OF PRATT. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...WHICH WILL MOVE IT THROUGH COATS AROUND 1215 PM AND SAWYER BY 1245 PM. THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT...OR JUST SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND IT W LPASS THROUGH HAZELTON AND KIOWA BY 1230 PM CDT. THE STORMS HAVE SHOWN AN INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY SINCE 1100 PM CDT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS THRO8UGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...OR TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO. PRESTON
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 12:59 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-281900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1258 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN INTENSITY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... ...AT 12:55 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A LINE FROM SOUTHEAST OF JETMORE...ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...TO NEAR MEDICINE LODGE...ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH...AND WILL BRING SOME BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND PROBABLY SOME SMALL HAIL TO THE KINSLEY AREA BETWEEN 1:15 AND 1:30 PM. ANOTHER STORM WHICH COULD PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRATT...AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH OR JUST NORTH OF PRATT BEFORE 1:30 PM. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION THIS AFTERNOON. LETRO
Nearby
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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.