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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Wichita, KS

September 5, 1992Montgomery County, Wilson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1992, 11:24 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 1992, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1992, 12:16 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 2344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 5:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 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

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 11:00 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	53 min
Sep 5, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	49 min
Sep 5, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	61 min
Sep 5, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	59 min
Sep 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	44 min
Sep 5, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	64 min
Sep 5, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	45 min
Sep 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	63 min
Sep 5, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	58 min
Sep 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.