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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 30, 1989Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1989, 6:20 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
Aug 30, 1989, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1989, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Meade 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
Aug 30, 6:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 51Meade, 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 72 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 1989-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1989-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 302321
SVRDDC
KSC119-310000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
620 PM CDT WED AUG 30 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
          ...MEADE
 
AT 620 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF
MEADE OR ABOUT 70 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY MOVING NORTH
NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE IN THE MEADE AREA BY
700 PM AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY RAINS.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE 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 30, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 302026
KSZ003-006-009-302125-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
325 AM CDT WED AUG 30 1989

.......A STORNG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS......

AT 325 PM CDT/ 225 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINS OVER ELKHART IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS OR ABOUT 73 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25
MILES AN HOUR.

THIS STORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS
...SOME SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

ADDITIONAL SHOWERS WERE ON THE RADAR EAST OF A LINE FROM HUTCHINSON TO
PRATT AND ON SOUTHWEST INTO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
ALSO.

J5OHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 6:13 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 302313
KSZ003-006-009-310010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
610 PM CDT WED AUG 30 1989

.......A STORNG THUNDERSTORM WAS SET TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 610 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL ANDEAVY
EASTERN BEAVER COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...ABOUT 70 MILES SOUTH
SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY AND MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS STORM WILL ENTER MEADE COUNTY pBY 630 PM AND REACH THE TOWN OF MEADE
BY 700 PM CDT.

PERSONS IN MEADE COUNTY ARE URGED TO WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE
PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER.

JOHNSON

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.