Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1989, 8:36 PM CST for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1989, 8:36 PM CST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1989, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 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 300237
SVRDDC
KSC097-300330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
836 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...KIOWA
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS FORMED 45 MILES EAST OF DODGE CITY JUST
NORTH OF GREENSBURG KANSAS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
10 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
ARE POSSIBLE. LOWLAND FLOODING IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY WITH THIS STORM.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROU S 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, Mar 29, 3:03 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 292103 KSZ006-009-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 300 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989 .........THUNDERSTORM GAINING STRENGTH NORTH OF DODGE CITY........ AT 300 PM GARDEN CITY RADAR SHOWED A MODERATE THUNDERSTORM ROUGHLY 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY OR JUST SOUTH OF JETMORE. THIS STORM HAD INCREASED IN STRENGTH OVER THE LAST HOUR AND NOW MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. THE STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES IN DIAMETER AND MOVING RATHER SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IMMEDIATELY SOUTH AND EAST OF JETMORE SHOULD PREPARE FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLY MIXED WITH PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 3:53 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
KSZ003 KDDC 292153 KSZ006-009-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 350 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989 .........THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS............... THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUE TO FORM IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORM HAD PASSED WEST TO EAST 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY ...ACROSS SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AND WAS HEADING FOR KINSLEY KANSAS. THE STORM SHOULD PASS DIRECTLY OVER KINSLEY..WITH ITS CURRENT SPEED AND DIRECTION ..BETWEEN 430 AND 5PM. AT 345 PM THE STORMS CENTER WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINSLEY. PERSONS IN AND AROUND KINSLEY CAN EXPECT SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. OTHER LESSER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING IN AN AREA 35 MILES DUE EAST OF DODGE CITY. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 8:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 61 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.