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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Wichita, KS

July 4, 1992Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 8:48 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1992, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Reno County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 1992-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2770 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
8.6

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The text

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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, 5:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-042035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
522 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992

...PERSIST THUNDERSTORM IS STILL PRODUCING SMALL HAIL IN EASTERN BOURBON
   COUNTY...

AT 515 PM CDT...AN OFFICAL WEATHER OBSERVER LOCATED JUST NORTH OF FT SCOTT
...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURG...REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.  RESIDENTS OF FT. SCOTT AND  HAMMOND
SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES.  IF THREATENING
APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA
FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

HYSELL

*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR EASTERN CHASE COUNTY*
*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES #540 AND #541 FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS
AS WELL AS CHASE COUNTY ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT*         HYSELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Woodson63 min
Jul 4, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Woodson59 min
Jul 4, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTNeosho41 min
Jul 4, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette68 min
Jul 4, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTNeosho47 min
Jul 4, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Woodson64 min
Jul 4, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Neosho63 min
Jul 4, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCherokee63 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.