Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1992, 1:46 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1992, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bourbon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 10, 11:46 AM CDT, 2 hours before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-110500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1145 AM CDT FRI JUL 10 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: A WEAK AND NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT LAY ROUGHLY FROM KANSAS CITY TO WICHITA THROUGH MEDICINE LODGE. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL FOCUS ALONG THIS LINdE...BEGINNING TOWARD EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED INTO THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:13 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 112 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 110 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHANUTE...NEAR ELSMORE. ALLEN COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED NO SEVERE WEATHER IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS STORM. THE AREA REMAINS PRIMED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOMENT...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF KANSAS SHOULD REVIEW SAFETY RULES NOW...AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER COMMERCIAL SOURCES FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:34 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-101930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 132 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 1992 ...POTENT THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO BOURBON COUNTY... AT 125 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE 5 MILES WIDE...FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHANUTE TO 20 MILES EAST OF CHANUTE. THIS LINE ROUGHLY PARALLELED THE ALLEN-BOURBON COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE OUT OF ALLEN COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF BOURBON COUNTY...YOU SHOULD MOVE INDOORS NOW TO PROTECT AGAINST LIGHTNING. REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...ROUGHLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM WICHITA TO CHANUTE. AREAL COVERAGE...AS WELL AS THE INTENSITY OF THE STRONGEST STORMS...HAD INCREASED SINCE 1230 PM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE ENTIRE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS REGION REMAINS PRIMED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. *SEVERE THUNDE6RSTORM WATCH #590 INCLUDES SOUTHEAST AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. LEIVERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 68 min |
| Jul 10, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 61 min |
| Jul 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 56 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.