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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Wichita, KS

July 16, 1992Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1992, 1:50 AM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1992, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1992, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sumner County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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 00:00Z on 1992-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1992-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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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, Jul 15, 10:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-160435-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1041 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #630 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR MARION
   AND CHASE COUNTIES...

AT 1025 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST CENTRAL
AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS WERE LOCATED15 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF NICKERSON. THIS STORM WAS
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE
STORM CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST CENTRAL
KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE IN AN AREA 20 MILES WIDE AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 15
MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF
BURNS. A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WAS 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA OR
JUST NORTH OF STRONG CITY.
MOVERMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

BOTH AREAS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE SINCE 925 PM.

ROSNER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 11:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-160435-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1115 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #630 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR MARION
   AND CHASE COUNTIES...

AT 1110 PM CDT...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...
SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING HAD DEVELOPED 5 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON AND
30 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAS^T AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE
TOWNS OF BURRTON AND HALSTEAD IN WESTERN HARVEY COUNTY AND HYMER AND STRONG
CITY IN NORTHERN CHASE COUNTY SHOULD LOOK FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

ROSNER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 11:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-160540-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1140 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #630 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR MARION
   AND CHASE COUNTIES...

AT 1125 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL
SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE 10 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON AND 25 MILES
WEST OF EMPORIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM EAST CENTRAL
INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION WAS IN AN AREA 130 MILES WIDE
AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM THE MISSOURI BORDER 35 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURG TO
THE OKLAHOMA BORDER 20 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. THE AREA HAD INCREAED IN
COVERAGE AND INTENSITY SINCE 1025 PM.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL$ AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

ROSNER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 12:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-160645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1240 AM CDT THU JUL 16 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1235 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE 10 MILES
WIDE.  THE LINE WENT FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA TO JUST EAST OF
EMPORIA.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MARION.  THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN THE INTENSITY OF THE STORMS SINCE MIDNIGHT.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...OVER HARPER COUNTY.  STORMS WERE FROM 45 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WICHITA TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA.  THESE STORMS ONLY
CONTAINED MODERATE TO BRIEF...HEAVY RAINS.

MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
.
REMEMBER...IF A STORMS MOVES INTO YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND WAIT THE STORM OUT.  ALSO...PERSONS IN MARION COUNTY SHOULD
REMAIN ESPECIALLY ALERT AS STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED
GROUNDS.

*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #633 COVERS SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF
SOUTtHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 5 AM CDT.

LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:15 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-160715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
115 AM CDT THU JUL 16 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 110 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE 10 MILES
WIDE.  THE LINE WENT FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON TO 20 MILES EAST
OF EMPORIA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS MARION AND SOUTHERN
CHASE COUNTIES.  THE INTENSITY OF THESE STORMS WAS UNCHANGED SINCE 1245 AM.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE IN
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...IN AN AREA 15 MILES WIDE.  THE AREA WAS CENTERED
ALONG A LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER 45
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA.

MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
.
REMEMBER...IF STORMS MOVES INTO YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND WAIT THE STORM OUT.  ALSO...PERSONS IN MARION COUNTY SHOULD
REMAIN ESPECIALLY ALERT AS STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED
GROUNDS.

AT THIS TIME...THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN SOUTHEAST
KANSAS.  THE AREA REMAINS PRIMED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS.  RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION.  BE PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED OR CONDITIONS WARRANT.

*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #633 COVERS SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF
SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 5 AM CDT.

LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:41 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-160745-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
137 AM CDT THU JUL 16 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 130 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ALONG A LINE 15 MILES WIDE.  THE LINE
CURVED FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA
TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN
EXTREME NORTHEAST MARION COUNTY...NEAR LINCOLNVILLE.  THE INTENSITY HAD
CHANGED LITTLE SINCE 1 AM.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME
HAIL WERE LOCATED IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE AREA WAS 10 MILES WIDE...
EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO THE OKLAHOMA
BORDER 45 MILES MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA.

MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
REMEMBER...IF STORMS MOVES INTO YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND WAIT THE STORM OUT.  ALSO...PERSONS IN MARION COUNTY SHOULD
REMAIN ESPECIALLY ALERT AS STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED
GROUNDS.

AT THIS TIME...THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN SOUTHEAST
KANSAS.  THE AREA REMAINS PRIMED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS.  RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION.  BE PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED OR CONDITIONS WARRANT.

*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #633 COVERS SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF
SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 5 AM CDT.

LEIVERS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion54 min
Jul 15, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase45 min
Jul 15, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno65 min
Jul 15, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase64 min
Jul 16, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick65 min
Jul 16, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley44 min
Jul 16, 3:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTWilson3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.