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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 18, 1992Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 7:50 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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 18, 1992, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Clark County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 18, 8:00 PM CDTHail 2.75Clark, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-428 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 190052
SVRDDC
KSC025-190115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
750 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 50 MILES
SOUTH OF DODGE CITY KANSAS OR ON THE OKLAHOMA LINE SOUTH OF ENGLEWOOD
KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES
AN HOUR ALONG THE CIMARRON RIVER IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY OF KANSAS.
 
IF YOU LIVE ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER AREA NEAR THE CIMARRON RIVER YOU
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.
 
THIS WARNING CANCELS THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY OF
KANSAS.  DOPPLER RADAR WAS NO LONGER GIVING INDICATIONS OF A TORNADO
MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER
IN A STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDpERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.
 
MB

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 18, 2:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ009-182015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
216 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 215 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 80 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY.  THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND
20 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS STORM SHOULD REACH KIOWA AND HARDTNER BY 230 PM
CDT.

THE STORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY
RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.  IT CONTINUED
TO SHOW RAPID DEVELOPMENT.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD STAY ALERT AbND
BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 7:12 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KSZ006-190115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
711 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE MOVING INTO
SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 710 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE.  THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS 65 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY KANSAS OR
OVER EASTERN BEAVER COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA.  MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND BY AROUND 735 PM CDT...THIS
THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE TO THE ENGLEWOOD KANSAS AREA.

IF YOU LIVE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST MEADE AND SOUTHWEST CLARK COUNTIES OF
KANSAS...YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS THUNDERSTORM HAD PRODUCED LARGE HAIL OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
EARLIER THIS EVENING.  IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM YOU
CAN EXPECT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING STRIKES.

MB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark48 min
Jun 18, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche49 min
Jun 18, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa25 min
Jun 18, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.