Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1992, 4:38 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1992, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1992, 5:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 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 222140 SVRDDC KSC025-222230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 438 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY AT 435 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLARK COUNTY STATE LAKE...OR 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH...AND SHOULD MOVE INTO EASTERN CLARK COUNTY OVER MAINLY OPEN FARMLAND THROUGH 515. 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 Q.UICKLY... 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, May 22, 10:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-222200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 1057 AM CDT FRI MAY 22 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: A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS. AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RESULT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. . HANSON
Special weather statement, May 22, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
KSZ006-009-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 251 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 245 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN CLARK COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF ASHLAND...OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SITKA AREA OF SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY BY 315 PM. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST MEADE COUNTY AND ALSO IN EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY. PERSONS IN SOUTHW"EST KANSAS...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A LIBERAL...DODGE CITY TO LARNED LINE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. HUTTON
Special weather statement, May 22, 3:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
KSZ006-009-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 251 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 245 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN CLARK COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF ASHLAND...OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SITKA AREA OF SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY BY 315 PM. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST MEADE COUNTY AND ALSO IN EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY. PERSONS IN SOUTHW~EST KANSAS...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A LIBERAL...DODGE CITY TO LARNED LINE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 60 min |
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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.