Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1989, 1:24 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1989, 1:24 PM CST (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1989, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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SVRDDC
KSC007-272000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
124 PM CST MON MAR 27 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...SOUTHERN BARBER
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY FROM
OKLAHOMA. HIGH WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MILES AN HOUR MAY BE EXPECTED WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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, Mar 27, 12:31 PM CST, 53 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 271831 KSZ006-009-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1230 AM CST MON MAR 27 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1215 THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR ASHLAND. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. CLYDE DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.18 NAME OF DIVISION:NORTH-CENTRAL COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) OSBORN ALTON 6ESE 0.24 REPUBLIC BELLEVILLE 0.13 MITCHELL BELOIT 0.23 CLAY CLAY CENTER MISSING CLOUD CONCORDIA 0.19 JEWELL MANKATO 0.28 OTTAWA MINNEAPOLIS 0.13 PHILLIPS PHILLIPSBURG 1SSE 0.04 ROOKS PLAINVILLE 0.30 SMITH SMITH CENTER 0.11 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON 0.22 DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.19 NAME OF DIVISION:NORTHEAST COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) ATCHISON ATCHISON 0.08 NEMAHA CENTRALIA 0.08 JACKSON HOLTON 0.15 BROWN HORTON 0.04 WYANDOTTE KANSAS CITY 0.47 LEAVENWORTH LEAVENWORTH 4SSE 0.28 RILEY MANHATTAN KSU 0.13 MARSHALL MARYSVILLE 0.10 JEFFERSON OSKALOOSA 0.23 DONIPHAN TROY 4WSW 0.05 POTTAWATOMIE WAMEGO 0.14 DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.16 NAME OF DIVISION:WEST-CENTRAL COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) LANE HEALY 0.30 WICHITA LEOTI MISSING NESS NESS CITY MISSINHAD MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR ASHLAND. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. CLYDE DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.18 NAME OF DIVISION:NORTH-CENTRAL COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) OSBORN ALTON 6ESE 0.24 REPUBLIC BELLEVILLE 0.13 MITCHELL BELOIT 0.23 CLAY CLAY CENTER MISSING CLOUD CONCORDIA 0.19 JEWELL MANKATO 0.28 OTTAWA MINNEAPOLIS 0.13 PHILLIPS PHILLIPSBURG 1SSE 0.04 ROOKS PLAINVILLE 0.30 SMITH SMITH CENTER 0.11 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON 0.22 DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.19 NAME OF DIVISION:NORTHEAST COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) ATCHISON ATCHISON 0.08 NEMAHA CENTRALIA 0.08 JACKSON HOLTON 0.15 BROWN HORTON 0.04 WYANDOTTE KANSAS CITY 0.47 LEAVENWORTH LEAVENWORTH 4SSE 0.28 RILEY MANHATTAN KSU 0.13 MARSHALL MARYSVILLE 0.10 JEFFERSON OSKALOOSA 0.23 DONIPHAN TROY 4WSW 0.05 POTTAWATOMIE WAMEGO 0.14 DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.16 NAME OF DIVISION:WEST-CENTRAL COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) LANE HEALY 0.30 WICHITA LEOTI MISSING NESS NESS CITY MISSING LOGAN OAKLEY 0.19 GOVE QUINTER 0.17 SCOTT SCOTT CITY 0.45 WALLACE SHARON SPRINGS 0.11 GREELEY TRIBUNE 1W 0.03 TREGO WAKEENEY 0.21 DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.21 NAME OF DIVISION:CENTRAL COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) DICKINSON ABILENE 2W MISSING RUSH BISON 0.08 ELLSWORTH ELLSWORTH 0.05 MARION FLORENCE 0.85 BARTON GREAT BEND 0.00 ELLIS HAYS 1S 0.11 LINCOLN LINCOLN 1ESE 0.08 MCPHERSON MCPHERSON MISSING RUSSELL RUSSELL 0.04 SALINE SALINA 0.06 RICE STERLING 0.11 DIVISION AVERAGE: 0.15 NAME OF DIVISION:EAST-CENTRAL COUNTY CITY AMOUNT OF PCPN (LIQUID) CHASE COTTONWOOD FALLS MISSING MORRIS COUNCIL GROVE 0.5*8 LYON EMPORIA 3NW 0.87 WABAUNSEE ESKRIDGE 1SE 0.27 ANDERSON GARNETT 1.17 COFFEY JOHN REDMAN 0.40 DOUGLAS LAWRENCE 0.17 GEARY MILFORD DAM MISSING LINN
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 12:34 PM CST, 50 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 271834 KSZ006-009-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1230 AM CST MON MAR 27 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1215 THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR ASHLAND. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED INTO THE CENTR2AL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. CLYDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.