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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 24, 1990Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1990, 4:59 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 1990, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Pawnee 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1990-04-24Temperature 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 1990-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 318 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
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 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 242159 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC145-242245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
459 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
          ...PAWNEE
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED ACROSS KINSLEY KS IN EDWARDS
COUNTY...40 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...HAS NOW MOVED NORTHEAST TO
THE PAWNEE COUNTY LINE AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH
PAWNEE COUNTY...60 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORM SHOULD
MOVE ACROSS ROZEL KS IN PAWNEE COUNTY BY 515 PM CDT.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny51 min
Apr 23, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney40 min
Apr 23, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman53 min
Apr 24, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.