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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Topeka, KS

June 24, 1992Jackson County, Shawnee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 5:24 PM CDT for Jackson County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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: Jun 24, 1992, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, KS, Shawnee County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 5:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Jackson, KS
Jun 24, 5:46 PM CDT	Hail 1	Shawnee, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 28 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 754 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, 12:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 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.

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	47 min
Jun 24, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie	41 min
Jun 24, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	69 min
Jun 24, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Mitchell	50 min
Jun 24, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osborne	36 min
Jun 24, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Ottawa	56 min
Jun 24, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Mitchell	33 min
Jun 24, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage	63 min
Jun 24, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osborne	36 min
Jun 24, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	62 min
Jun 24, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin	68 min
Jun 24, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Osborne, Russell	62 min
Jun 24, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ellsworth	29 min
Jun 24, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ellsworth	46 min
Jun 24, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Russell	65 min
Jun 24, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Barton	26 min
Jun 24, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Barton	63 min
Jun 24, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Rice	61 min
Jun 24, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Barton	56 min
Jun 24, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1992 Every 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.