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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 14, 1992Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 6:18 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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
May 14, 1992, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1992, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 6:29 PM MDTHail 1Hamilton, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2100 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 14, 5:49 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-150045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
648 PM CDT THU MAY 14 1992

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN THE EXTREME WESTERN
   PART OF THE DISTRICT...

AT 640 PM CDT...540 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNNNTY...15 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE, AND
ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. NO SEVERE WEATHER CONDITION
IS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM.

GHOLSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton57 min
May 15, 2:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant17 min
May 15, 2:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny29 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.