Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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 15, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1992, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rooks, KS | |
| Jun 15, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rooks, KS | |
| Jun 15, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Rooks, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 152105 TORGLD KSC163-152200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 305 PM MDT (405 PM CDT) MON JUN 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT (500 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTH CENTRAL ROOKS COUNTY AT 400 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES TO THE WEST OF PLAINSVILLE IN ROOKS COUNTY 25 MILES TO THE NORTH OF HAYS. THIS STORM IS MOVEING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO OSBORNE COUNTY BY 445 PM CDT JENNER R 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 TO 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.
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, Jun 15, 11:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ-001-002-004-005-007-008-162200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1045 AM MDT (1145 AM CDT) MON JUN 15 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS. CHEYENNE RAWLINS SCOTT LANE NESS RUSH SHERMAN THOMAS DECATUR NORTON PHILIPS WALLACE LOGAN SHERIDAN GRAHAM ROOKS GREELEY WICHITA GOVE TREGO ELLIS SYNOPSIS: MOIST UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUES OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS TODAY AND THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY. JENNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Phillips | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rooks | 44 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.