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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Goodland, KS

June 15, 1992Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 4:25 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 15, 1992, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Phillips County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 4:30 PM CDTHail 1Phillips, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 366 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 15, 11:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ-001-002-004-005-007-008-162200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1045 AM MDT (1145 AM CDT) MON JUN 15 1992

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS.

CHEYENNE    RAWLINS      SCOTT         LANE        NESS      RUSH
SHERMAN     THOMAS       DECATUR       NORTON      PHILIPS
WALLACE     LOGAN        SHERIDAN      GRAHAM      ROOKS
GREELEY     WICHITA      GOVE          TREGO       ELLIS

SYNOPSIS:  MOIST UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUES OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS TODAY AND
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WITH A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY.

JENNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRooks55 min
Jun 15, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRooks44 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.