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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Wichita, KS

June 24, 1992Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 8:50 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1992, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sumner County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3766 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner48 min
Jun 24, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper50 min
Jun 24, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner42 min
Jun 24, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner48 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.