Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 8:41 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Comanche, KS | |
| Jun 18, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Comanche, KS | |
| Jun 18, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Comanche, 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 190143 SVRDDC KSC033-190230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 841 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY AT 840 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 1 MILE NORTHEAST OF PROTECTION KANSAS OR 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO COLDWATER KANSAS BY 850 PM CDT AND WILMORE KANSAS BY 910 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IN THE PROTECTION KANSAS AREA AND EARLIER TONIGHT IN CLARK COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM...YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS EITHER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR BASEMENT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 25 min |
| Jun 18, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 25 min |
| Jun 18, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.