Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1990, 4:40 PM CST for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1990, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1990, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
440 PM CST TUE MAR 6 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...NORTHERN CLARK
AT 440 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY
ABOUT 6 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND OR 25 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE
CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AND HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS
OVER CLARK COUNTY LAKE IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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 6, 2:32 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-062130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 230 PM CST TUE MAR 6 1990 AT 225 PM CST RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN A NORTH-SOUTH LINE FROM JETMORE, KS IN HODGEMAN CO....25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...SOUTHWARD INTO THE EAST END OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH OF ENGLEWOOD, KS., WHICH IS ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND PEA-SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MINNEOLA, KS. ...20 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THE LINE OF STORMS IS ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 3:08 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
KSZ006-009-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 305 PM CST TUE MAR 6 1990 AT 255 PM CST RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY NEAR JETMORE SOUTHWARD THROUGH DODGE CITY TO 23 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY NEAR MINNEOLA. THE LINE OF THUNDER/ STORMS EXTENDS ON SOUTHWARD INTO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND PEA-SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF DODGE CITY AT 240 PM CST. THUNDERSTORMS AT DODGE CITY HAVE DUMPED 0.50 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DEL
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 4:00 PM CST, 40 minutes before
KSZ006-009-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 358 PM CST TUE MAR 6 1990 ...THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CST.... AT 350 PM CST RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTH TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM 60 MILES NORTHB OF DODGE CITY SOUTH TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY NEAR ENGLEWOOD KS. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DEL
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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.