Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1989, 2:26 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1989, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1989, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 251927
SVRDDC
KSC025-252015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
226 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...WESTERN CLARK
AT 225 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN CLARK COUNTY
ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY OR 10 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND MOVING
NORTH NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER
IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.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 25, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 251816 KSZ003-006-251915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 115 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1989 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 115 PM RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF VERY STORNG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST CLARK AND SOUTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTIES OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE PROTECTION AREA BY 130 PM. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...BREIF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SNALL HAIL IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED LIBERALLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL KANSAS EAST OF A LINE FROM BEAVER OKLAHOMA; THROUGH GARDEN CITY. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 251818 COR KSZ003-006-251915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT......CORRECTED TYPOS....... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 115 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1989 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 115 PM RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF VERY STORNG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST CLARK AND SOUTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTIES OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE PROTECTION AREA BY 130 PM. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED LIBERALLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL KANSAS EASBT OF A LINE FROM BEAVER OKLAHOMA THROUGH GARDEN CITY. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:22 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 251922 KSZ003-006-252020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 220 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1989 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 220 PM RADAR SHOWED A PAIR OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS. ONE STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLDWATER IN COMANCHE COUNTY OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...THE OTHER WAS OVER ENGLEWOOD IN SOUTHWEST CLARK COUNTY OR ABOUT 45 MILES DUE SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE IN GREENSBURG AND ASHLAND RESPECTIVELY BY 3 PM. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED LIBERALLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL KANSAS EAST OF A LINE FROM BEAVER OKLAHOMA THROUGH GARDEN CITY. JOHNSON
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.