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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1992, 3:00 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 102103 TORGLD KSC199-102145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM MDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WALLACE COUNTY AT 3PM MDT THE WALLACE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 1 MILE NORTH OF WESKAN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY BETWEEN WESKAN AND SHARON SPRINGS. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TFO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. MYERS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Aug 10, 11:15 AM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-111800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS 1115 AM MDT MON AUG 10 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: CHEYENNE RAWLINS SCOTT LANE NESS RUSH SHERMAN THOMAS DECATUR NORTON PHILLIPS WALLACE LOGAN SHERDIAN GRAHAM ROOKS GREELEY WICHITA GOVE TREGO ELLIS SYNOPSIS: A WEAK COLD FRONT IN EASTERN COLORADO COUPLED WITH UNSTABLE AIR WILL COMBINE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT. SOME MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. MYERS
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
KSZ001-002-102015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 109 PM MDT (209 PM CDT) MON AUG 10 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS AT 2 PM CDT. ONE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY..20 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST..AND ANOTHER RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND AND MOVING TO THE EAST VERY SLOWLY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE OR PROPERTY. DORSEY
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:04 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 202 PM MDT (302 PM CDT) MON AUG 10 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KANSAS TILL 9PM MDT. AT 2PM MDT RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE KANSAS...COLORADO BORDER FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND. MOVEMENT IS EAST AT 10 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORM CENTERS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...AND SHARON SPRINGS AREAS UNTIL 3PM MDT. YOU NEED TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE SKY AS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND THE STORMS MAY RAPIDLY DEVELOP SEVERE WEATHER. MYERS
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.