Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 1992, 3:42 PM CST for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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
- Mar 17, 1992, 3:42 PM CST (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1992, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Pratt, KS | |
| Mar 17, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Pratt, 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 172142 TORDDC KSC151-172215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 342 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHWESTERN PRATT COUNTY AT 340 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF CROFT...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. PERSONS IN CROFT SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING BEYOND CROFT AND INTO OPEN COUNTRY THRUOGH 415 PM. IN ADDITION...LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WIND IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHWEST PRATT COUNTY. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 54 min |
| Mar 17, 4:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 53 min |
| Mar 17, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 40 min |
| Mar 17, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 41 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.