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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

June 27, 1992Scott County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1992, 4:29 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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: Jun 27, 1992, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Scott County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 27, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Scott, KS
Jun 27, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Scott, KS
Jun 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Scott, 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, 9.5 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-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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 272129
TORGLD
KSC171-272230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
329 PM MDT (429 PM CDT) SAT JUN 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM MDT (530 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SCOTT COUNTY
 
AT 1628CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
SCOTT CITY. MOVEMENT WILL BE ERRATIC WITH A POSSIBLE EAST NORTHEAST
DRIFT. IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY. GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE HOME OR AN INTERIOR ROOM
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
~ 
CANCEL THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FOR SCOTT COUNTY AND REPLACE IT WITH
THE TORNADO WARNING.
 
MYERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Scott	64 min
Jun 27, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lane	49 min
Jun 27, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lane, Ness	67 min
Jun 27, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Scott	58 min
Jun 27, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Ness	57 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.