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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

June 13, 1992Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1992, 5:41 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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 13, 1992, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1992, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 6:30 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Wallace, 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 132341
SVRGLD
KSC199-140045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
541 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...WALLACE COUNTY
 
AT 540PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTH OF
GOODLAND ALONG THE GREELEY WALLACE COUNTY LINE MOVING NORTHEAST 25MPH.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE SHARON SPRINGS AREA BY 6PM MDT.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PRJOTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.
MYERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.