Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1989, 6:12 PM CDT for Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Sep 8, 1989, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, KS, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:22 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Clark, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1441 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 082312 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC025-033-090015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...SOUTHEASTERN CLARK
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...COMANCHE
RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY
ONTHE OKLAHOMA LINE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY. THIS STORM IS
MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AND THREATENS MUCH OF COMMANCHE
COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF COLDWATER.
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, Sep 8, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 081959 KSZ003-006-009-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 255 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ....THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY......... AT 250 PM RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORMS BEGAN IN OKLAHOMA AND CUT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CLARK COUNTY AND NORTHEAST TOWARDS GREENSBURG KANSAS. THIS 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOST LIKELY STAY EAST OF CLARK COUNTY AS IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE OVER COLDWATER AND GREENSBURG KANSAS BY 3:30 PM AND IF THEY CONTINUE...ARRIVE NEAR PRATT AND MEDICINE LODGHE KANSAS BY 6:PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLES WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING STORMS SHOULD STAY CLOSE TO SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO ARRIVE. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 3:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 082002 KSZ003-006-009-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 255 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ....THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY......... AT 250 PM RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORMS BEGAN IN OKLAHOMA AND CUT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CLARK COUNTY AND NORTHEAST TOWARDS GREENSBURG KANSAS. THIS 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOST LIKELY STAY EAST OF CLARK COUNTY LAKE AS IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE OVER COLDWATER AND GREENSBURG KANSAS BY 3:30 PM AND IF THEY CONTINUE...ARRIVE NEAR PRATT AND MEDICINEU LODGE KANSAS BY 6:PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING STORMS SHOULD STAY CLOSE TO SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO ARRIVE. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.