Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 3:20 PM CDT for Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 4, 1992, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, KS, Osage County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:43 PM CDT | Hail 5 | Osage, KS | |
| Jul 4, 4:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osage, 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 042022 SVRTOP KSC059-139-042100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 320 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...OSAGE COUNTY AT 318PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED AROUND 35 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKAK NEAR LYNDON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH AND SHOULD THREATEN OTTAWA BY 4PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LYON MORRIS AND COFFEY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED SINCE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED SLIGHTLY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED AROUND 40 MILES WEST AND TOPEKA AND COULD BECOME SEVERE SOON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.
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, Jul 4, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
KSZ013>016- - SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1155 AM CDT SUN JUL 04 1992 FIREWORKS THIS FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND COULD BE NATURES OWN. THUNDERSTORMS COULD POP UP ABOUT ANYWHERE AFTER 3PM THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. HOWEVER A BIGGER THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME THIS EVENING WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY PUSHING INTO THE STATE FROM THE NORTH. THIS FRONT WILL ACT UPON VERY WARM MOIST AIR. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD RESULT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE AFTER 8PM TONIGHT THEN CONTINUING THROUGH THE NIGHT. TORRENTIAL RAINS GUSTY WINDS HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL BE THREATS FROM ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. KEEP THIS IN MIND WHEN YOU PLAN YOUR AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACTIVITIES. ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE WILL BE THOSE ON THE INLAND LAKES. WATCH THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO HEAD FOR SHORE QUICKLY SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. + ONCE THE STORMS DEVELOP, THEY WILL LIKELY MOVE TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 12:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ013>016-050000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT GENERIC CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1155 AM CDT SUN JUL 04 1992 FIREWORKS THIS FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND COULD BE NATURES OWN. THUNDERSTORMS COULD POP UP ABOUT ANYWHERE AFTER 3PM THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. HOWEVER A BIGGER THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME THIS EVENING WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY PUSHING INTO THE STATE FROM THE NORTH. THIS FRONT WILL ACT UPON VERY WARM MOIST AIR. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD RESULT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE AFTER 8PM TONIGHT THEN CONTINUING THROUGH THE NIGHT. TORRENTIAL RAINS GUSTY WINDS HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL BE THREATS FROM ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. KEEP THIS IN MIND WHEN YOU PLAN YOUR AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACTIVITIES. ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE WILL BE THOSE ON THE INLAND LAKES. WATCH THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO HEAD FOR SHORE QUICKLY SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. + ONCE THE STORMS DEVELOP, THEY WILL LIKELY MOVE TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ013>016-050000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1253 PM CDT SUN JUL 04 1992 A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS POSTED FOR THE INLAND LAKES OF WESTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO PRATT. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OVER 30 MPH WILL BRING DANGEROUS BOATING OVER THE OPEN WATER. FOR YOUR SAFETY IN THE ADVISORY AREA, STAY CLOSE TO SHORE OR IN PROTECTED INLETS. THE WIND SHOULD DIMINISH SOMEWHA"T THIS EVENING. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
KSZ013>016-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 200 PM CDT SUN JUL 04 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP FROM AROUND CONCORDIA TO EMPORIA THEN INTO THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES OF KANSAS WHERE SEVERE STORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS MAINLY TO THE WEST OF TOPEKA. THE STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST. NO STORMS WILL THREATEN TOPEKA BEFORE 4PM. HOWEVER STORMS THAT DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON WILL BE STRONG AND COULD BRING HAIL HIGH WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE AREA COULD EXPERIENCE STRONG STORMS AFTER 4PM WITH EMPORIA AND MANHATTAN THRREATENED BY STORMS BETWEEN 2 AND 4PM CDT. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:41 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ013>016-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 240 PM CDT SUN JUL 04 1992 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AT MID AFTERNOON... A 235 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA ALONG THE OSAGE AND COFFEY COUNTY LINES OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OSAGE CITY. THIS STORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ...HAIL AND FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MELVERN RESERVOIR AND POMONA RESERVOIR AREAS BY 330 PM CDT AND PAST NEAR OR TO THE SOUTHEAST OF OSAGE CITY. RESIDENTS IN OSAGE CITY AND BOATERS AND CAMPERS IN THE MELVERN LAKE AND POMONA RESERVOIR AREAS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHS ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. FRANTZl
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:42 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-042045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 241 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 240 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA IN THE VICINITY OF HERINGTON. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABLOUT 20 MPH. MRU
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell, Osborne | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnee | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 18 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.