Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 1:27 PM CDT for Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1992, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Crawford, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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, Jul 4, 11:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1110 AM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS: BUTLER HARPER MARION SUMNER CHASE HARVEY RENO COWLEY KINGMAN SEDGWICK AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS: ALLEN CHEROKEE GREENWOOD NEOSHO BOURBON CRAWFORD LABETTE WILSON CHAUTAUQUA ELK MONTGOMERY WOODSON SYNOPSIS: UNSTABLE AIR COMBINED WITH INCREASING MOISTURE WILL CAUSE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ROSNER
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 12:36 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-041835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1236 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 AT 1225 PM CDT...A ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED 40 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF SEDAN ALONG THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. PEOPLE ALONG THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER WEST OF COFFEYVILLE CAN EXPECTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL FOR THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A SMALL AREA IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION WAS IN AN AREA 20 MILES WIDE AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF COFFEYVILLE TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER 25 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. ROSNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.