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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 1992Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1992, 4:21 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 13, 1992, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1992, 4:57 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 4:30 PM MDTHail 1.75Hamilton, 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1992-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 578 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1992-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 13, 10:28 AM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-132200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
1130 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 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: LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON ALONG
THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE ROCKIES AS A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL WEATHER
DISTURBANCE BEGINS MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES.  THIS WILL CONTINUE
TO BRING A MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW OF AIR INTO KANSAS.  SCATTERED LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER
EASTERN COLORADO AND THEN MOVE INTO WESTERN KANSAS THIS EVENING.  SOME
OF THESE THUNDERSTORM ARE FORECAST TO BECOME SEVERE.  THEREFORE SPOTTER
VACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING
FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

MB
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:12 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
KSZ003-006-132310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
510 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO FAR WESTERN
KANSAS...

AT 507 PM...VERY STRONG AND RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN
EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF COOLIDGE...OR ABOUT 70
MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY.  THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO WESTERN
HAMILTON COUNTY...NEAR COOLIDGE...BY 530 PM CDT OR 430 PM MDT.

PERSONS IN WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...
STRONG WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS.

THE ATMOSPHERE IS BECOMING VERY UNSTABLE ACROSS FAR WESTERN KANSAS...AND
ADDITION THUNDERSTORMS ARE> LIKELY THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS
WEATHER SITUATION.

HUTTON

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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.