Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 12:02 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1992, 12:02 AM CDT (05:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1992, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 848 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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, May 13, 9:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ001-140300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 912 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 210 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGERt IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... CHEYENNE RAWLINS SHERMAN THOMAS THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... GOODLAND
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
KSZ013>016-140430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1030 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER AT 925PM CDT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THE PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY BE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MPH. KAYS
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
KSZ013>016-140430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1040 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER AT 1025PM CDT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THE PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY BE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MPH. KAYS
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 13, 11:40 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
KSZ013>016-140530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1140 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG AND NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER AT 1135PM CDT. STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT TO MOVE INTO THE MARYSVILLE AREA FROM NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS LIKELY WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVERSPREADING ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. A HALF INCH OF RAIN SHOULD BE COMMON FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. AMOUNTS NEAR AN INCH IN LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WOULD NOT BE O"UT OF THE QUESTION. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 38 min |
| May 14, 12:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.