Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1989, 2:06 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1989, 2:06 PM CST (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1989, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 39 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, 8.1 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
KSC007-272045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
206 PM CST MON MAR 27 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...EASTERN BARBER
THE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY TILL 2PM FOR
SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY HAS BEEN SHIFTED TO EASTERN BARBER COUNTY TILL
23O PM. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF MEDICINE
LODGE MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.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, 1 hour 35 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, 1 hour 32 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
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 1:40 PM CST, 26 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 271940 KSZ006-009-272035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 136 PM CST MON MAR 27 1989 ........THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTINUE TILL DUSK.......... AT 130 PM THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS COVERED ROUGHLY A 50 MILES RADIUS OF DODGE CITY. THE AREA WAS BOUNDED BY GARDEN CITY ON THE WEST AND PRATT ON THE EAST. THE AREA WAS SLOWLY EXPANDING TO THE NORTH AND EAST. THE STRONGEST CELLS WERE IN SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED TILL 2PM. THE MAJORITY OF THE RAIN WAS LIGHT TO MODERATE WITH DODGE CITY RECEIVING 25 HUNDRETHS. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 52 REMAINS IN EFFECT TILL 7PM THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 36 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.