Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 5:41 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1992, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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, Apr 11, 1:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ017-111900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 100 PM CDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...THE STAGE IS SET FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS YET. AT 1250 PM...THE WICHITA RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...MOVING SOUTHWARD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER SOUTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS CONTINUES TO BECOME MORE UNSTABLE AS THE TEMPERATURES CLIMB. WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THIS AREA ...THEY WILL LIKELY INTENSIFY RAPIDLY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 123 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT. HEDGES
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 2:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
KSZ017-112015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 215 PM CDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS CONTINUES TO GROW... AT 210 PM CDT...THE WICHITA RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLOVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH...AND SHOULD REACH SOUTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM. THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS CONTINUES TO GROW MORE UNSTABLE. WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS REACH THIS AREA...THEY WILL INTENSIFY RAPIDLY. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO...FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 123 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HEDGES
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 2:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ017-112015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 215 PM CDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS CONTINUES TO GROW... AT 2 PM CDT...THE WICHITA RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH...AND SHOULD REACH SOUTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM. THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS CONTINUES TO GROW MORE UNSTABLE. WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS REACH THIS AREA...THEY WILL INTENSIFY RAPIDLY. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO...FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 123 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HEDGES
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 2:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
KSZ017-112045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 237 PM CDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 230 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER...AND NO PRECIPITATION... WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HOWEVER...THE AIRMASS REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE...AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON IS LIKELY. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO...FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #123 FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 5 PM CDT. LEIVERS FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HEDGES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 56 min |
| Apr 11, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 55 min |
| Apr 11, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 31 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.