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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 18, 1992Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 9:05 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1992, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 190205
SVRDDC
KSC097-190230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
905 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
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY
 
AT 905 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT
WILMORE KANSAS IN NORTHERN COMMANCHE COUNTY OR 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PRATT KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES
AN HOUR AND WILL REACH BELVIDERE KANSAS BY 920 PM CDT. AS THIS
THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH NORTHERN COMMANCHE...THERE WERE REPORTS OF
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM...YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DANDEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.  SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
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.
 
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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 53 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.

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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, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark25 min
Jun 18, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche49 min
Jun 18, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt61 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.