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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Wichita, KS

July 4, 1992Crawford County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 4, 1:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Crawford, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1430 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase44 min
Jul 4, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase66 min
Jul 4, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase58 min
Jul 4, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen65 min
Jul 4, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood, Woodson61 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.