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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Topeka, KS

June 24, 1992Barton County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 4:04 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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
Jun 24, 1992, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Barton County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 24, 4:15 PM CDTHail 1.75Barton, 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 786 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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, Jun 24, 11:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-241800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1150 AM CDT WED JUN 24 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EAST OF A LINE FROM
   WASHINGTON TO CLAY CENTER TO ABILENE TO ELDORADO...

AT 1150 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A 10 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
MARYSVILLE TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR AGENDA.  THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE 25 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR LINN AND 40 MILES
EAST NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR WATERVILLE.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PACKETT
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 11:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ013-014-015-016-241800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1154 AM CDT WED JUN 24 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE NORTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER...

AT 1137 AM A LINE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
30 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF MARYSVILLE NEAR BLUE RAPIDS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
WAS LOCATED FROM LAWRENCE TO 30 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA NEAR
HOLTON.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR LAWRENCE AND IN WESTERN NEMAHA
COUNTY NEAR BAILEYVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

LAPLANTE
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-241830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1234 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EAST OF A LINE FROM
   WASHINGTON TO CLAY CENTER TO ABILENE TO ELDORADO...

AT 1232 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING TO THE
NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 25 MILES
EAST SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR CLAY CENTER AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BEATRICBE TO HASTINGS NEBRASKA
AND WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED
TO MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS BETWEEN 1PM AND 115PM CDT.

PACKETT
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 11:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha47 min
Jun 24, 12:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie41 min
Jun 24, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee, Wabaunsee69 min
Jun 24, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMitchell50 min
Jun 24, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsborne36 min
Jun 24, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLincoln, Ottawa56 min
Jun 24, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMitchell33 min
Jun 24, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage63 min
Jun 24, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsborne36 min
Jun 24, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon62 min
Jun 24, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin68 min
Jun 24, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLincoln, Osborne, Russell62 min
Jun 24, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth29 min
Jun 24, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth46 min
Jun 24, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRussell65 min
Jun 24, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBarton63 min
Jun 24, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRice61 min
Jun 24, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBarton56 min
Jun 24, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Shawnee66 min
Jun 24, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992Every 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.