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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 6, 1990Clark County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 062239 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC025-062330-
 
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

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.