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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Goodland, KS

July 18, 1992Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1992, 10:40 PM CDT for Rooks 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
Jul 18, 1992, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1992, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 18, 10:48 PM CDTHail 0.75Rooks, 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 00:00Z on 1992-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1217 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 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
1217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips58 min
Jul 18, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham61 min
Jul 18, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips37 min
Jul 18, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton69 min
Jul 18, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham67 min
Jul 19, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRooks56 min
Jul 19, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita65 min
Jul 19, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992Every 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.