Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1989, 7:11 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1989, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Comanche, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1969 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 310012
SVRDDC
KSC033-310100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
711 PM CDT WED AUG 30 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...WESTERN COMANCHE
AT 712 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY
JUST WEST OF PROTECTION OR ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF DODGE
CITY AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 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, Aug 30, 3:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 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, 58 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
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 7:00 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 310000 KSZ003-006-009-310100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 700 PM CDT WED AUG 30 1989 ....THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER WERE WEAKNING..... AT 700 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE OKALHOMA BORDER IN CLARK...MEADE AND SOUTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTIES WERE MUCH WEAKER AND WERE NO LONGER SEVERE. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY IN MEADE COUNTY TO 55 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY IN WESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY AND WERE MOVING NOTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. AT PRESENT THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE WARNING FOR MEADE COUNTY HAD EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE RENEWED. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 43 min |
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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.