Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 65 min |
| Jun 6, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 27 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.