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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

May 13, 1992Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1992, 8:25 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 3 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
May 13, 1992, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 13, 8:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Logan, KS
May 13, 9:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Logan, KS
May 13, 9:20 PM CDTHail 0.75Logan, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 848 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
848 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.7

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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, May 13, 5:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ001-140000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
457 PM MDT (557 PM CDT) WED MAY 13 1992

AT 450 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF
GOODLAND KANSAS OR 15 MILES NORTH OF ST FRANCIS KANSAS.

THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY
RAINS..STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL.  IF THE STORM
CONTINUES ITS PATH IT SHOULD MOVE TO THE NORTH OF ATWOOD KANSAS BY
AROUND 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING.

BOYLE
Special weather statement, May 13, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 13, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
KSZ001-140100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
554 PM MDT (654 PM CDT) WED MAY 13 1992

AT 547 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
GOODLAND KANSAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ALONG WITH SOME SMALL HAIL.

OTHER RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 75 MILES
NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS.

THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE TO BETWEEN COLBY AND ATWOOD KANSAS BETWEEN 630
AND 7 PM MDT.

BOYLE
Special weather statement, May 13, 7:54 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-140200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
653 PM MDT (753 PM CDT) WED MAY 13 1992

....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
NORTHWEST..NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT
THURSDAY MORNING...

AT 645 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL
HAIL WAS 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND AND 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GOODLAND KANSAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE TO BETWEEN COLBY AND OBERLIN KANSAS BY 8 PM
MDT.

NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR AT THIS TIME.

BOYLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas51 min
May 13, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLane67 min
May 13, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNess51 min
May 13, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEllis45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.