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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Topeka, KS

August 3, 19924 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1992, 8:31 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1992, 8:31 AM CDT (13:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1992, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 247 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1992-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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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, Aug 3, 5:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-021200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
557 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 555 AM RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM RED CLOUD NEBRASKA TO 25 MILES WEST OF HAYS.  THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA JUST WEST OF RED CLOUD.  BRIEF
HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE
STORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PACKETT
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-021300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
703 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 700 AM RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA NEAR CHESTER TO BELOIT TO
HAYS.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG
NEAR COVERT.  BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE
EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PACKETT
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:55 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-031400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
755 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND WILL COVER MOST OF
CENTRAL KANSAS BY 8:30AM CDT...

AT 750 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE 40 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR CAWKER CITY
AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO TIPTON TO HUNTER TO JUST NORTH OF LINCOLN.  THIS
AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR CLAY CENTER TO MINNEAPOLIS TO RUSSELL TO 10 MILES
SOUTH OF HAYS.  THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 35 MILES MPH.  THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE GREAT BEND AND
SALINA AREAS BY 8:30 AM THIS MORNING.
LLS
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 8:23 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-031400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
822 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 820AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY CONTAIN WINDS
OVER 45 MPH AS WELL AS TORRENTIAL RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL THAT
EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF RUSSELL TO NEAR MILBERGER TO NEAR GALATIA
TO 20 MILES WEST OF GREAT BEND. THESE WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL
BE INTO THE RUSSELL AND GREAT BEND AREAS BY 845AM.

ANOTHER LINE OF STRONG STORMS WAS FROM NEAR ASH GROVE TO JUST NORTH OF
LINCOLN TO 10 MILES WEST OF SALINA. THESE WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
MPH. THESE ALSO CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS
AND WILL BE INTO THE SALINA...BROOKVILLE AND TESCOTT AREAS BY 845AM.

ALSO ALOT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING IS WITH THESE STORMS. GO INDOORS UNTIL
THEY PASS.             ...JF...
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 8:30 AM CDT, 1 minute before
KSZ013>016-031430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
830 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
    KANSAS...

AT 830 AM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
THE MANHATTAN AREA EXTENDING NORTHWESTWARD TO CONCORDIA. THE PRECIPITATION
WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WITH THIS MOVEMENT...THE CITIES OF
JUNCTION CITY...ALMA AND POSSIBLY COUNCIL GROVE WILL SEE THESE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 830 AND 945 AM.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH.

IT APPEARS THAT TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE WILL NOT SEE ANY OF THIS PRECIPITATION.

BARLOW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 8:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSaline49 min
Aug 3, 8:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRice35 min
Aug 3, 9:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPSaline2 hr

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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.