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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 14, 1989Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1989, 7:21 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 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, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1989, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 14, 7:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 65Kearny, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1989-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 229 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 1989-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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, Jul 14, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell47 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.