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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 1989Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1989, 9:04 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1989, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1989, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Stevens 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1989-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1989-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton68 min
May 15, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward61 min
May 16, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche55 min
May 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche60 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.