Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1989, 6:18 PM CDT for Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 14, 1989, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Finney County, KS, Kearny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Kearny, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 142317
SVRDDC
KSC055-093-150015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
618 PM CDT (518 PM MDT) FRI JUL 14 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT (615 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...WESTERN FINNEY...KEARNY
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTY
LINE ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT LEOTA AT 345 PM MDT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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, Jul 14, 5:51 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
KSZ003-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 548 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BUILDING IN EASTERN COLORADO... AT 535 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHWEST OF CAMPO COLO NORTH TO CHEYENE WELLS COLO. CHEYENE WELLS IS 95 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS LINE IS MOVING TOWARD SOUTHWEST KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 610 IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR LEOTA WHICH IS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THEY SHOULD BE OVER GARDEN CITY BY 815 PM. DEL
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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.