Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1992, 1:57 AM CDT for Osborne County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 7, 1992, 1:57 AM CDT (06:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 2:32 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osborne County, KS, Russell County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osborne, KS | |
| Sep 7, 2:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Russell, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2651 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 070700 COR SVRCNK KSC167-141-070745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED...ADD MOVEMENT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 157 AM CDT MON SEP 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OSBORNE COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED. AT 156 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF PARADISE. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. URBAN
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, Sep 6, 9:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
KSZALL-070340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 934 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 815 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF WESTERN KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... RAWLINS THOMAS ...WEST CENTRAL... ...SOUTHWEST... LOGAN SCOTT FINNEY THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... GARDEN CITY SCOTT CITY COLBY END
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 10:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-070400-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1011 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992
...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL
KANSAS...
AT 1010 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS ENTERING OSBORNE...RUSSELL AND
BARTON COUNTIES. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN KANSAS
FROM SOUTH OF NESS CITY TO HILL CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE ENTERING THE RUSSELL AREA
AND SHOULD PASS TO THE NORTH OF GREAT BEND WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS.
URBANSpecial weather statement, Sep 6, 10:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-070500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1053 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1052 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYS AND WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF SALINA NEAR ELLSWORTH TO 25 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA OR JUST WEST OF BELOIT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND LOTS OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. URBAN
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
KSZALL-070510- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1110 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 815 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF WESTERN KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...SOUTHWEST... HODGEMAN PAWNEE END
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-070600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1153 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1152 PM CDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCO6MPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES INTO WESTERN SMITH AND OSBORNE COUNTIES. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF HILL CITY TO SOUTH OF HAYS. URBAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell, Republic | 41 min |
| Sep 7, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 17 min |
| Sep 7, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.