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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 23, 1990Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1990, 9:22 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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: Apr 23, 1990, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Hodgeman 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
Apr 23, 9:48 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Hodgeman, 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 35 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 240222
SVRDDC
KSC083-240315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
922 PM CDT MON APR 23 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
          ...HODGEMAN
 
AT 922 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
JETMORE OR 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL ARRIVE
IN JETMORE BY 928 PM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
 
 
 
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, Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 232200
KSZ003-232100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
5 PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST
    KANSAS...

AT 5 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES
WIDE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY...SOUTHWESTWARD TO
THE COLORADO BORDER IN JOHNSON COUNTY...40 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES.

THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH A$ND IS
EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN STRENGTH AND COVERAGE THE NEXT HOUR. LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WITH GUSTY
WINDS AND THE POSSIBLITY OF SMALL HAIL.

GHOLSON

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 232330
KSZ003-240030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
630PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE
    HAIL IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 620 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 80 MILES
WIDE EXTENDING FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF KEARNEY COUNTY...30 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE COLORADO LINE 40 MILES
WEST OF ULYSSES.

STRONGEST STORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...40 MILES
WEST-SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES.
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER AT JOHNSON KS...IN STANTON CO....55 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY REPORTED A 10 MINUTE PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN AND
PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL BEGINNING AT 550 PM CDT. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL.                                        GHOLSON

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 7:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 240029
KSZ003-240130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
730 PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL CONTINUE
    IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 720 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND
SHOWERS WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM NORTHERN
FINNEY COUNTY...20 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY...SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE
COLORADO LINE 40 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES.

STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY, AND IN SOUTH-
EAST HAMILTON COUNTY...50 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY.

THE PUBLIC REPORTS PEA/SIZE HAIL...BUT NOT A GREAT DEAL OF RAIN....
15 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY AT 7 PM CDT. THqESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
GHOLSON

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 9:15 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 240215
KSZ003-240215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
915 PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....RADAR NOW INDICATES A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN
SOUTHWEST KANSAS...........

AT 915 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN
CITY TO 10 MILES WEST OF DODGE CITY TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTH EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.
STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORM AS THEY MOVE INTO
DODGE CITY BY 925 PM.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO JETMORE BY 925 PM WITH
STRONG WINDS AND SOME HAIL.

GREGG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	51 min
Apr 23, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	40 min
Apr 24, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	40 min
Apr 24, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.