Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1992, 6:16 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 1992, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 1992, 7:09 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harvey County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 052325 SVRICT KSC015-079-173-060015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 616 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY...HARVEY COUNTY ...NORTHERN SEDGWICK COUNTY INCLUDING WICHITA AT 620PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL NEAR GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WICHITA. PEOPLE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WICHITA SHOULD FIND INDOOR SHELTER AT ONCE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY CROSS PARTS OF HARVEY COUNTY...AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF BUTLER COUNTY BETWEEN 630 AND 730 THIS EVENING. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS INCLUDING THE EL DORADO LAKE AREA SHOULD FIND INDOOR SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINLDOWS. SCHURR
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, Sep 5, 12:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
KS012-011-012-014-017-031830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1230 AM CDT THU SEP 3 1992 ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS POSTED FROM SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A THUNDERSTORM WERE IN A BAND 20 MILES WIDE FROM TOPEKA TO 15 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE TO SEDAN OR 20 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE. IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ONLY A LIGHT SPRINKLES ARE EXPECTED AS THESE SHOWERS HAVE CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY SINCE 1130 AM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. LR
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KS012-011-012-014-017-052145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 354 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 808 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED IN CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KANSAS... CONDITIONS ARE HIGHLY FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH DIAMETER...AND WINDS GUSTS TO 60 MIlLES AN HOUR OR STRONGER. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER BY MOVING INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
KS012-011-012-014-017-052245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 446 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 808 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 445 PM...WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED IN CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KATHE POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH DIAMETER...AND WINDS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR OR STRONGER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FRON 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
KS012-011-012-014-017-052245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS...CORRECTION... 454 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 808 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 445 PM...WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED IN SOUTH CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KANSAS...THE POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WINDS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR OR STRONGER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FRON 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER ...CORRECTION TO FIRST PARAGRAPH...
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 5:41 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KS012-011-012-014-017-052330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 540 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #808 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.... ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 530 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF JUNCTION CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ISOLATED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE ALSO LOCATED BETWEEN 25 MILES SOUTHEAST TP 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA. MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED OVER CENTRAL OR SO^UTHEAST KANSAS. HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Sep 5, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.