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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Wichita, KS

September 9, 1992Woodson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1992, 5:07 PM CDT for Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1992, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Woodson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2283 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 457 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
457 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
734 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson59 min
Sep 9, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Elk69 min
Sep 9, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua51 min
Sep 9, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson67 min
Sep 9, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBourbon58 min
Sep 9, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley60 min
Sep 9, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery59 min
Sep 9, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBourbon, Crawford58 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.