Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1992, 2:01 AM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1992, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1992, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gray County, KS, Meade County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 140701 SVRDDC KSC069-119-140745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 201 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY...NORTHERN MEADE COUNTY AT 200 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS...35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY...NEAR COPELAND. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU LIVE IN COPELAND...MONTEZUMA...OR MEADE PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS..AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. 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 14, 1:45 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-140745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 145 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1992 ...STRONG WINDS ARE PUSHING THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 142 AM CDT..DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF OUTFLOW WINDS AHEAD OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AROUND GARDEN CITY. THE LINE OF STRONG WINDS...TO OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR...STRETCHED FROM ABOUT JETMORE...TO JUST WEST OF DODGE CITY...TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MEADE COUNTY...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. IF YOU LIVE AHEAD OF THIS LINE OF STRONG WINDS...PREPARE FOR A RAPID CHANGE IN DIRECTION TO THE WEST AND AN INCREASE IN SPEEDS TO OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR. LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NAvTIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...ON THE HIGH WINDS AND STORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS PRESTON
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, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 51 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 |
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.