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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Topeka, KS

July 29, 1992Atchison County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 8:42 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 29, 1992, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Atchison County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 29, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Atchison, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 2199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1333 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 7.1

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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 29, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:50 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:51 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 8:24 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

KSZ013>016-300230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
823 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1992

AT 820PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED ABOUT 40 TO 45 MILES
NORTH OF TOPEKA ACROSS NORTHWEST ATCHISON...NORTHEAST JACKSON AND
EXTREME SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 20 TO
25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN ATCHISON COUNTY BETWEEN 820 AND
850PM THIS EVENING. THE CITIES OF MUSCOTAH...EFFINGHAM...WHITING AND
HURON ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL THAT COULD CAUSE FLOODING...DEADLY LIGHTNING...
HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE ABOUT 30 TO 35 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA NEAR
ALMA. THESE STOR|MS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR A GOOD SHARE OF
NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 1AM CDT.

AKULOW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Barton, Russell	41 min
Jul 29, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Russell	33 min
Jul 29, 10:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Osborne	51 min
Jul 29, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	64 min
Jul 29, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	37 min
Jul 29, 11:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Brown	3 hr
Jul 29, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Rice	39 min
Jul 30, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	44 min
Jul 30, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	47 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.