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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Goodland, KS

June 27, 1992Scott County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1992, 2:56 PM CDT for Scott 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 27, 1992, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Scott County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDTHail 1Scott, 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 265 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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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, Jun 27, 11:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-281800-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
1036 AM MDT SAT JUN 27 1992

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS:

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

SYNOPSIS: A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS FROM WESTERN NEBRASKA INTO TEXAS
ALONG WITH AN APPROACHING UPPER LOW CENTER OVER COLORADO WILL ALLOW FOR
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AFTER 2 PM MDT.

SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY
BE NEEDED.

WORKMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLane49 min
Jun 27, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDScott61 min
Jun 27, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLane, Ness67 min
Jun 27, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDScott58 min
Jun 27, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNess57 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.