Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.