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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 1989Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1989, 4:05 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1989, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1989, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Pawnee 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1989-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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 1989-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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, Jun 10, 3:32 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-102130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS.
330 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM TONIGHT...

AT 325 PM CDT...A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST TO THE SOUTH OF
LARNED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  LARNED IS 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRATT
KANSAS.

HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HO5UR.

RYBA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee28 min
Jun 10, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford37 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.