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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Topeka, KS

May 14, 1992Russell County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 848 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1992-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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, 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRussell38 min
May 14, 12:11 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPRussell46 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.