Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Wichita, KS

May 10, 1992Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1992, 5:32 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1992, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Cowley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 123 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.