Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 1992, 7:31 PM CDT for Atchison County, Jackson County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 1992, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Jackson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 3230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 060032 TORTOP KSC005-085-060100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 731 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...WESTERN ATCHISON COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERRIF REPORTED ON TORNADO ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITING MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WHITING IS IN NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY ABOUT 35 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA. MUSCOTAH AND EFFINGHAM ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNAhDO 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 5, 4:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 453 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #808 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM FOR DICKINSON COUNTY... AT 452 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF NEWLY DEVELOPED AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALINA NEAR UPLAND TO ABILENE OR 20 MILES EAST OF SALINA TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA OR JUST EAST OF GYPSUM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. MRU
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
KS010>017-062340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 541 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT... AT 540PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE MANHATTAN AREA...AND ABOUT 50 TO 60 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA ACROSS SOUTH NEMAHA COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF WETMORE...GOFF...CORNING AND CENTRALIA. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL FELL NEAR CENTRALIA A LITTLE BEFORE 5PM ALONG WITH 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN SLIGHTLY OVER AN HOURS TIME. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IN NEMAHA COUNTY. IN THE MANHATTAN AREA...THE THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN TO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION CITY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. AKULOW
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 5:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 545 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #808 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM FOR DICKINSON COUNTY... AT 544 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA NEAR BRIDGEPORT TO ABOUT 35 MILES EAST OF SALINA OR JUST EAST OF CHAPMAN TO MANHATTAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SOME SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MRU
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 6:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KS010>017-060010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 612 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT... AT 610PM...A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA, NEAR HIAWATHA, TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION CITY. THE LINE WAS DROPPING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.. ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN NEMAHA COUNTY WHERE THE STORMS HAVE SHOW LITTLE MOVEMENT SINCE 4PM. FLOODING OF STREETS..INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY IN SOUTHERN NEMAHA COUNTY THIS EVENING. SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.. ALL OTHER STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. + AKULOW
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 6:33 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-060045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 633 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #808 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM FOR DICKINSON COUNTY... AT 632 PM CDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF SALINA JUST TO THE EAST OF ROXBURY TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA NEAR ELMO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SOME SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. MRU
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 6:53 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KS010>017-060050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 653 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 1992 AT 653PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS, ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE, EXTENDED FROM 65 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA, NEAR HIAWATHA, TO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION CITY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WAS PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH. SOME FLOODING OF STREETS...INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY IN SOUTHERN NEMAHA ...SOUTHERN BROWN AND IN EXTREME NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES THIS EVENING. AROUND 630PM...BRIEF ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE FT. RILEY MILLITARY BASE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS W,ILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT... AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE STORMS AND SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. + AKULOW
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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.