Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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 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. 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 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. 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, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.