Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1992, 10:17 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1992, 10:17 PM MDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1992, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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, 4:56 PM MDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ003-006-132350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 553 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT. MAINLY WEST OF GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL LINE. SOUTHWEST KANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE FINNEY...GRANT... HAMILTON...HASKELL...KEARNY...MORTON...SEWARD...STANTON AND STEVENS. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE ELKHART...SYRACUSE...GARDEN CITY...AND LIBERAL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE INCREASING ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS INTO THE EVENING HOURS. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:11 PM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ003-006-140115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 710 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH COUNTINUES FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AT 7 PM. A DELAYED REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE AT 655 PM. THE HAIL OCCURRED AT ABOUT 530 PM...10 MILES NORTH AND ONE ONE WEST OF COOLIDGE ON THE HAMILTON/GREELY COUNTY LINE. IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN HAMILTON...NORTHEAST STANTON AND EASTERN GRANT COUNTY. AT THIS TIME THEY WERE NOT SEVERE...BUT WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING MAINLY ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY THROUGH 745 PM. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS.* HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 9:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 10:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 11:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 11:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 11:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 11:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 12:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 1:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 44 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.