Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 6:39 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1992, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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, Jun 5, 4:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-052215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 419 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES 298 & 299 ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND ALL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT RICE AND MCPHERSON... AT 4 10 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EXTENDING IN AN AREA 20 MILES WIDE FROM 50 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR BURR OAK WEST TO 30 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PHILLIPSBURG AND 10 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPSBURG. VERY HEAVY RAIN..DEADLY LIGHTNING...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. PERSdONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. SW
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 512 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES 298 & 299 ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND ALL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT RICE AND MCPHERSON... AT 5 05 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EXTENDING IN AN AREA 15 MILES WIDE FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF CLAUDELL TO 15 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR KENS- INGTON. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AREA POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED A2T ATHOL OR 10 MILES WEST OF SMITH CENTER AND 510 PM. LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. SW
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 517 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 299 IS IN EFFECT FROM 430PM UNTIL 11PM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM SENECA TO HOLTON TO ALMA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY... AT 512 PM...RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS THAT WERE TO THE SOUTH OF LAWRENCE AND TOPEKA EARLIER HAVE DISSIPATED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN KANSAS AND ARE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. THE CLOSEST THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHEAST KANSAS...THAT MIGHT EVENTUALLY REACH NORTHEAST KANSAS WER TO THE NORTH OF RUSSELL...SOME 15 TO 20 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THESE STORMS...IF THEY CONTINUE THEIR CURRENT MOVEMENT...COULD BE MOVING INTO MARSHALL...RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 8 PM AND 9 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 550 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES 298 & 299 ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND ALL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT RICE AND MCPHERSON... AT 5 48 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG OR JUST EAST OF ALTON IN NORTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY. PEA SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR DOWNS BY 6 05 PM CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH WEST OF A LINE FROM HEBRON NEBRASKA TO BELOIT TO JUST NORTH OF RUSSELL. THIS AREA IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:25 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-062325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 625 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 297 FOR NORTHWEST AND PART OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... TORNADO WATCH 297 FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THERE HAS ENDED. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER ANY WATCH... ...NORTHWEST... CHEYENNE DECATUR NORTON RAWLINS SHERMAN THOMAS ...WEST CENTRAL... WALLACE GREELEY BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-060035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 633 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 299 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM THIS EVENING FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM SENECA TO HOLTON TO ALMA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY... AT 630 PM...RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST KANSAS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS AT 30 35 MPH. THE NORTHERN END OF THIS LINE WAS STILL ROUGHLY 30 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS. THESE STORMS...IF THEY CONTINUE AT THEIR CURRENT MOVEMENT...COULD BE MOVING INTO MARSHALL...RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AROUND 9 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. BILLS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 47 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.