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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 26, 1989Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1989, 11:19 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 1989, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1989, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 41 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 00:00Z, 4.3 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.

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: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Apr 26, 5:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

KSZ003-006-262330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
537 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 530PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  THEY WERE IN A TEN MILE WIDE LINE FROM
A POINT ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS ON SOUTH INTO THE TEXAS
PANHANDLE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MILES "AN HOUR.

RYBA

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 7:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

KSZ003-006-270100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
704 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989

...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME LIGHT RAIN WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 700PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN SHOWERS IN AN AREA JUST SOUTHWEST OF
DODGE CITY.  LIGHT RAINS WERE REPORTED JUST TO THE WEST OF DODGE CITY.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 38 MPH WAS OBSERVED AT THE DODGE CITY AIRPORT.
STRONG WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED AT MEADE KANSAS OR ABOUT 35 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

RYBA

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

KSZ003-006-009-270200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
808 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM CDT FOR KIOWA, COMMANCHE, PRATT
AND BARBER COUNTIES...

AT 800PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS ON THE KANSAS BORDER ABOUT
45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND
SHOULD BE IN THE SUN CITY AREA ABOUT 9PM CDT.  STRONG WINDS AND
LIGHT RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

RYBA

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.