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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Topeka, KS

April 11, 1992Coffey County, Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 4:01 PM CDT for Coffey County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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: Apr 11, 1992, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 1992, 4:35 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coffey County, KS, Osage County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 11, 4:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Osage, 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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, Apr 11, 11:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Osborne, Russell	58 min
Apr 10, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Mitchell	53 min
Apr 10, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Russell	46 min
Apr 10, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	65 min
Apr 10, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	46 min
Apr 10, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	40 min
Apr 10, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ellsworth	63 min
Apr 10, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Washington	46 min
Apr 10, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Riley	47 min
Apr 10, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	48 min
Apr 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	40 min
Apr 10, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	47 min
Apr 10, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ellsworth	54 min
Apr 10, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Ellsworth	3 hr
Apr 10, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	40 min
Apr 10, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa	42 min
Apr 11, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	62 min
Apr 11, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	32 min
Apr 11, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	54 min
Apr 11, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	59 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.