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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS

May 10, 1992Rice County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1992, 8:46 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1992, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rice County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 1992-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1992-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -176 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 110147
TORCNK
KSC159-110215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
846 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...RICE COUNTY
 
AT 845PM...A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED ON THE GROUND JUST SOUTH OF LYONS
MOVING NORTH. TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN LYONS.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMitchell47 min
May 11, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSaline69 min
May 11, 1:41 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRussell34 min
May 11, 2:11 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRussell34 min
May 11, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRussell13 min
May 11, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPEllsworth31 min
May 11, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLincoln37 min
May 11, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth39 min
May 11, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay40 min
May 11, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson56 min
May 11, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa39 min

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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.