Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 8:25 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1992, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 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
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, 4:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 450 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 445 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING LOCATED 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS OR JUST EAST OF THE TOWN OF COVERT. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR WASHINGTON AND 10 MILES EAST OF KIMEO. THE SE THUDNERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SW
Local storm report, Jul 4, 6:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
614 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992
STORM REPORT FOR SAT JULY 4 1992...ALL TIMES CDT
5:50 PM CDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL FELL IN THE CITY OF OSBORNE..OSBORNE
COUNTY. REPORTED BY THE OSBORNE COUNTY SHERIFF.
LLSSpecial weather statement, Jul 4, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 616 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 610 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING LOCATED 45 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSBORNE AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANDALL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR GREEN AND AND 32 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF SALINA OR JUST EAST OF MOONLIGHT. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SW
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 7:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-050100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 704 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 7 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONE AND JUST NORTH OF THE KANSAS NEBRASKA BORDER SOME 35 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST SOUTHEAST. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LLS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 7:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-050115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 707 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 AT 650PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM AROUND MARYSVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY TO NEAR EMPORIA. THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS FROM AROUND HIAWATHA TO AROUND GARNETT WHICH IS AROUND 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. AN INTENSE STORM WAS LOCATED AROUND 65 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA JUST NORTHEAST OF HIAWATHA. THIS STORM COULD BRING SOME HAIL AND VERY GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE FALLEN OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN OSAGE COUNTY AND PARTS OF LYON COUNTY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BRING TORRENTIAL RAINS AND SOME HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 8PM CDT. KAYS
Local storm report, Jul 4, 8:14 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
8XX PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992
STORM REPORT FOR SAT JULY 4 1992...ALL TIMES CDT
7:49 PM CDT 3/4 INCH HAIL FELL IN MAHASKA..NORTHWEST WASHINGTON COUN9TY.
REPORTED BY THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF.
LLSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris | 62 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.