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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 26, 1989Edwards County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1989, 10:23 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1989, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1989, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Edwards 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 00:00Z on 1989-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1720 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 00:00Z on 1989-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1720 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
8.4

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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 26, 5:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 262214
KSZ003-006-009-262310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
510 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF GARDEN CITY...

AT 510 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES
NORTH NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINED UP ALONG THE FRONT AND
EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY ON TO THE NORTHEAST
TO RUSSELL AND ON ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS.

THE STORM NORTH NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 110'0 PM CDT
FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 262334
KSZ003-006-009-262400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
635 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

...A VEY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF GARDEN CITY...

AT 635 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 15 MILES
NORTH OF GARDEN CITY AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINED UP ALONG THE FRONT AND EXTENDED FROM
40 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY ON EAST TO SOUTH OF RUSSELL.

THE STORM NORTH OF GARDEN CITY IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS
...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST
KANSAS.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY INTO SHELTER.                 JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney36 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney60 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.