Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1992, 5:19 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 13, 1992, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mcpherson, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 951 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 13, 4:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:20 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-132220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 4120PM CDT MON JUL 13 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM AND 10 MPH FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. AT 415PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 30 TO 35 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA IN SOUTHERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF WAMEGO. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF STRONG WIND...HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A 20 MILE WIDE LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS THAT REACHED FROM NEAR ST JOSEPH MISSOURI TO MANHATTAN TO NEAR HUTCHINSON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. AKULOW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:34 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-132230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 433 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #613 IS IN EFFECT FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY UNTIL 10PM THIS EVENING... AT 430PM...RADAR SHOWED A 15 MILE WIDE LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON...TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA TO MANHATTAN. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 5 MILES NORTH OF CANTON AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF LITTLE RIVER. TA
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:43 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-132245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 443 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE HOLDING STEADY ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 430 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED ANCHORED 20 MILES NORTH THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM ATCHINSON AND HOLTON THROUGH WAMEGO...ST MARYS AND ALMA. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED...HEAVY RAIN ...LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORM. THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERRIFF AT HOLTON REPORTED SOME SMALL HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH HOWEVER THE LINE ITSELF WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THUS...THUNDERSTORMS WILL TEND TO PERSIST IN THIS AREA THROUGH AT LEAST 5 PM. ...FOR TOPEKA...THUNDERSTORMS WILL HOLD ABOUT 20 MILES OFF TO THE NORTHWEST THROUGH AT LEAST 630 PM. FELDT
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-132300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 507 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 505 PM...20 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM NEAR ST JOSEPH MISSOURI TO ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR ONAGA. THE LINE ALSO EXTENDED FROM THE JUNCTION CITY AREA SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED...HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS SUCH AS STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATC&HES CONTINUE FOR A GOOD PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 9PM AND 10PM. + AKULOW
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:14 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-132315 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 513 PM CDT MON JUL 13 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #613 IS IN EFFECT FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY UNTIL 10PM THIS EVENING... AT 511PM...RADAR SHOWED A 25 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GREAT BEND..TO SALINA..TO MANHATTAN. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST WEST OF MCPHERSON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL..HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. TA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa, Saline | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 69 min |
| Jul 12, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| Jul 12, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 55 min |
| Jul 12, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 20 min |
| Jul 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 16 min |
| Jul 12, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 67 min |
| Jul 12, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 27 min |
| Jul 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992Every 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.