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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Goodland, KS

August 10, 1992Lane County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 7:17 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 1992, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lane County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 10, 2:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

KSZ001-002-102015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
109 PM MDT (209 PM CDT) MON AUG 10 1992

THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS AT
2 PM CDT. ONE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY..20 MILES NORTH
OF GOODLAND WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST..AND ANOTHER RAPIDLY
DEVELOPING STORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND AND MOVING TO
THE EAST VERY SLOWLY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS
ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

PERSONS IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE
STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE
OR PROPERTY.

DORSEY

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-102100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
202 PM MDT (302 PM CDT) MON AUG 10 1992

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KANSAS TILL 9PM MDT.

AT 2PM MDT RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE
KANSAS...COLORADO BORDER FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND TO 50
MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND. MOVEMENT IS EAST AT 10 MPH.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER
STORM CENTERS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...AND
SHARON SPRINGS AREAS UNTIL 3PM MDT.

YOU NEED TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE SKY AS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS
IN EFFECT AND THE STORMS MAY RAPIDLY DEVELOP SEVERE WEATHER.

MYERS

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	El Paso	64 min

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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.