Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1992, 9:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hodgeman County, KS, Pawnee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 100146 SVRDDC KSC145-083-100245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 845 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AT 843 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...NEAR THE TOWN HANSTON. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE IN BURDETT AND ROZEL AROUND 930 PM CDT. 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. EKB
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, Jun 9, 4:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ003-006-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 455 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT. AS OF 445 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 30 MILES WEST OF SCOTT CITY TO 15 MILES WEST OF LIBERAL KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE LIBERAL KANSAS AREA BY 515 PM CDT AND INTO THE GARDEN CITY KANSAS AREA BY AROUND 530 PM CDT. IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. ALSO YOU SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MB
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ003-006-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 530 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 520 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 40 MILES WIDE FROM 20 MILES WEST OF SCOTT CITY KANSAS TO 10 WEST OF GARDEN CITY AND THEN TO LIBERAL. THIS BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE GARDEN CITY AND SUBLETTE KANSAS AREAS BY AROUND 6 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATES OF LOCALIZIED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF FROM ONE HALF INCH TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE AS THE STORMS MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AS OF 520 PM CDT...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP DOES REMAIN HIGH. IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MB
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
KSZ003-006-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 609 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 605 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO THE GARDEN CITY AREA AND SOUTHERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE GARDEN CITY AREA BY 630 PM CDT AND INTO THE CIMARRON AREA BY 645 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAIN FROM THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS...SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS...LOW LYING AREAS...AND SMALL STREAMS IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS OR IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA...YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. MB
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
KSZ003-006-100045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 644 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 635 PM CDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM SCOTT CITY KANSAS TO CIMARRON AND THEN TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 45 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OR IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF MEADE COUNTY KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE TOWN OF ASHLAND BY AROUND 715 PM CDT. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE DODGE CITY AREA BETWEEN 715 PM AND 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING. VERY HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND PIF NECESSARY...YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS TO A REINFORCED BUILDING. MB
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
KSZ003-006-100130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR PRODUCT TYPE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 728 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 720 PM CDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES EAST OF SCOTT CITY KANSAS THROUGH THE DODGE CITY AREA AND THEN SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA/KANSAS BORDER SOUTH OF ASHLAND KANSAS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OR JUST NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF KALVESTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE INTO OPEN FARMLAND JUST NORTH JETMORE BY AROUND 8 PM CDT. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AROUND THE DODGE CITY AREA UNTIL AROUND 9 PM CDT. AS OF 720 PM CDT...NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS. HOWEVER...THE HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD CAUSED SOME LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING. THERE WERE REPORTS OF WATER OVER THE ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY 50 AROUND THE INGALLS KANSAS AREA...BUT THIS WATER WAS NOT IMPEDING TRAFFIC. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...AND SMALL STREAMS AS THEY PASS OVER AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS. MB
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ003-006-100215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 810 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 800 PM CDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM 30 MILES EAST OF SCOTT CITY KANSAS TO JUST EAST OF DODGE CITY TO 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY ON THE OKLAHOMA/KANSAS BORDER. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OR JUST NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF FORD. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO OPEN FARMLAND BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF SPEARVILLE AND MULLINVILLE. THERE HAVE REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN REDUCING VISIBILITY TO ZERO WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH DOES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST...THEY ARE EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY OVER PAWNEE...EDWARDS...AND NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES AND MAY BECOME SEVERE. IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THESE COUNTIES...YOU SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.