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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Wichita, KS

July 4, 1992Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 10:22 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports 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, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Labette County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 4, 10:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Labette, KS
Jul 4, 11:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Labette, 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2800 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.2
Supercell composite: 25.9

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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, 5:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	63 min
Jul 4, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	59 min
Jul 4, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	27 min
Jul 4, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	41 min
Jul 4, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	47 min
Jul 4, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	64 min
Jul 4, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	63 min
Jul 4, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cherokee	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.