Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1992, 12:39 AM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1992, 12:39 AM CDT (05:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1992, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gray County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 140540 SVRDDC KSC069-140630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1239 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY AT 1238 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...16 MILES WEST OF CIMARRON...OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE INTO CHARLESTON AROUND 1250 AM...INGALLS AT 100 AM...AND INTO CIMARRON AROUND 110 AM CDT. SEEK SHELTER NOW IN A STURDY BUILDING. 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. PRESTON
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, 7:11 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 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, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.