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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 6, 1989Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1989, 4:09 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 1989, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1989, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gray 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 12:00Z on 1989-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1331 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 12:00Z on 1989-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 062109 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC025-069-062200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
409 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
          ...NORTHERN CLARK...SOUTHERN GRAY
 
AT 400 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHER GRAY COUNTY
AND A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT
STRETCHED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY NEAR COPELAND OVER TO
30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR COLDWATER. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS CAUSING QUICK FLOODING OF DITCHES AND
ROADWAYS.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...9DESTRUCTIVE 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, Aug 6, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 061950
KSZ003-006-050720-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
245 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 1989

AT 240 PM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST
KANSAS FROM THE NORTHWEST.  THESE STORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GARDEN CITY OR 15 MILES NORTH OF LAKIN KANSAS MOVING TO THE SOTHEAST
AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THE STORMS SHOULD PASS OVER OR JUST TO THE NORTH
EAST OF LAKIN BY 330 PM AND BE IN THE HOLCOMB..GARDEN CITY VICINITY BY
4 PM.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SOME SMALL HAIL...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND
GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.  NORTHERN KEARNY AND NORTHWEST
FINNEY COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR POTENTIALLY DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS.

SEEK SHELTER IN A FORTIFIED SHELTER OR A BASEMENT AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS TO BE ISSUED IF THE NEED ARISES.

NOLLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny41 min
Aug 6, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark51 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.