Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1989, 5:43 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1989, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1989, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:35 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Barber, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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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TTAA00 KDDC 292344
SVRDDC
KSC007-300045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
543 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...NORTHERN BARBER
AT 540 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES SOUTH OF
PRATT KS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST ALONG THE PRATT-BARBER COUNTY LINE.
THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ALONG ITS PATH OVER THE PAST
HOUR...ALONG WITH ONE QUARTER TO HALF-INCH HAIL. NO DAMAGING WINDS
HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.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 29, 2:08 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 292008 KSZ006-009-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 200 PM CST MON MAR 27 1989 .........THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS........ AT 200 PM GARDEN CITY RADAR SHOWED A SMALL THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY NEAR JETMORE. THE CENTER OF THE STORM WILL MOST LIKELY PASS JUST TO THE SOUTH OF JETMORE AS IT MOVES DUE EAST AT 5 MPH. ONLY LIGHT AMOUNTS OR RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS SHOWER AND NEARLY ALL OR IT WILL FALL IN HODGEMAN COUNTY. IF THE STORM HOLDS TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH THE EDWARDS COUNTY PANHANDLE MAY RECEIVE SOME LIGHT RAIN. MORE THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOPE TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS A&S A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 292015 KSZ006-009-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 200 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989 ............CORRECTED THE DATE....... .........THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS........ AT 200 PM GARDEN CITY RADAR SHOWED A SMALL THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY NEAR JETMORE. THE CENTER OF THE STORM WILL MOST LIKELY PASS JUST TO THE SOUTH OF JETMORE AS IT MOVES DUE EAST AT 5 MPH. ONLY LIGHT AMOUNTS OR RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS SHOWER AND NEARLY ALL OR IT WILL FALL IN HODGEMAN COUNTY. IF THE STORM HOLDS TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH THE EDWARDS COUNTY PANHANDLE MAY RECEIVE SOME LIGHT RAIN. MORE THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO DECVELOPE TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 3:03 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 292103 KSZ006-009-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 300 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989 .........THUNDERSTORM GAINING STRENGTH NORTH OF DODGE CITY........ AT 300 PM GARDEN CITY RADAR SHOWED A MODERATE THUNDERSTORM ROUGHLY 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY OR JUST SOUTH OF JETMORE. THIS STORM HAD INCREASED IN STRENGTH OVER THE LAST HOUR AND NOW MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. THE STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES IN DIAMETER AND MOVING RATHER SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IMMEDIATELY SOUTH AND EAST OF JETMORE SHOULD PREPARE FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLY MIXED WITH PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 3:53 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 292153 KSZ006-009-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 350 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989 .........THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS............... THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUE TO FORM IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORM HAD PASSED WEST TO EAST 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY ...ACROSS SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AND WAS HEADING FOR KINSLEY KANSAS. THE STORM SHOULD PASS DIRECTLY OVER KINSLEY..WITH ITS CURRENT SPEED AND DIRECTION ..BETWEEN 430 AND 5PM. AT 345 PM THE STORMS CENTER WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINSLEY. PERSONS IN AND AROUND KINSLEY CAN EXPECT SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. OTHER LESSER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING IN AN AREA 35 MILES DUE EAST OF DODGE CITY. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.