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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 6, 1989Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1989, 6:33 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1989, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1989, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Seward 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 323 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 062334
SVRDDC
KSC175-070000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
633 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
          ...NORTHERN SEWARD
 
AT 632 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD FORMED RAPIDLY ABOUT 40 MILES
SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY OVER NORTHERN SEWARD COUNTY AND HAD
PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST
VERY SLOWLY AND AT PRESENT RATE WILL REACH THE KISMET AND PLAINS AREA
JUST BEFORE 700 PM CDT.
 
 
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, Jun 6, 3:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-032130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
335 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1989

...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT....

AT 335 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 60 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY OR 10 MILES WEST OF HUGOTON.  THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND DEVELOPING RAPIDLY.

HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS+ WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH HAD BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
SYRACUSE TO GARDEN CITY AND ON THROUGH KINSLEY.  DODGE CITY AND GARDEN
CITY ARE IN THE WATCH AREA.
JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:54 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-032350-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
550 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1989

...ALL TORNADO WARNINGS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS HAD EXPIRED...

AT 550 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH HAD PRODUCED
TORNADOES WEST OF LIBERAL HAD MOVED SOUTH SPREADING DESTRUCTION INTO
BEAVER AND TEXAS COUNTIES IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 65 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY OVER HAMILTON
COUNTY HAD DIMINISHED GREATLY IN INTENSITY AND NO MORE VIOLENT WEATHER
IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUED FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
SYRACUSE TO GARDEN CITY AND ON THROUGH KINSLEY.  DODGE CITY AND GARDEN
CITY ARE IN THE WATCH AREA WHICH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT.
JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 6:29 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-070015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
630 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1989

...REDEVELOPMENT WAS OCCURING OVER NORTHERN SEWARD COUNTY....

AT 630 PM CDT RADAR A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED
IN THE WAKE OF THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN SEWARD
COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY AND
WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST.

THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE BREIF VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY
WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND IS BEING MONITORED FOR FURTHER
DEVELOPMENT.

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUED FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
SYRACUSE TO GARDEN CITY AND ON THROUGH KINSLEY.  DOODGE CITY AND GARDEN
CITY ARE IN THE WATCH AREA WHICH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT.
JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens50 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward, Stevens25 min
Jun 6, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton65 min
Jun 6, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton40 min
Jun 6, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every 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.