Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1989, 8:27 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1989, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barber 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 270127
SVRDDC
KSC007-033-270200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
827 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...WESTERN BARBER...SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE
AT 820PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE KANSAS OKLAHOMA
BORDER 35 MILE SOUTHWEST OF PRATT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.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, Apr 26, 5:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ003-006-262330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS. 537 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 530PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THEY WERE IN A TEN MILE WIDE LINE FROM A POINT ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS ON SOUTH INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MILES "AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
KSZ003-006-270100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS. 704 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME LIGHT RAIN WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 700PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN SHOWERS IN AN AREA JUST SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. LIGHT RAINS WERE REPORTED JUST TO THE WEST OF DODGE CITY. WIND GUSTS UP TO 38 MPH WAS OBSERVED AT THE DODGE CITY AIRPORT. STRONG WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED AT MEADE KANSAS OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:09 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS. 808 PM CDT WED APR 26 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM CDT FOR KIOWA, COMMANCHE, PRATT AND BARBER COUNTIES... AT 800PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS ON THE KANSAS BORDER ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN THE SUN CITY AREA ABOUT 9PM CDT. STRONG WINDS AND LIGHT RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RYBA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 41 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.