Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1990, 10:46 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1990, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 1446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 250349 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC057-250430-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1046 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...FORD
AT 1045 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF
DODGE CITY/...JUST NORTH OF MINNEOLA KS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF DODGE CITY.
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 24, 5:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 242256 KSZ003-250000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 550 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990 ....THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS EAST OF DODGE CITY... AT 550 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES EAST OF HILL CITY SOUTH THROUGH THE DODGE CITY AREA AND ON TO A POINT 25 MIES WEST OF GAGE OKLAHOMA. THE NAD WAS NOT MOVING WHILE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE BAND WERE MOVING NORTH NOTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ID YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. A TORNADO RWATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE AREA UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 6:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 242312 COR KSZ003-250000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT......CORRECTED TYPOS........... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 550 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990 ....THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS EAST OF DODGE CITY... AT 550 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES EAST OF HILL CITY SOUTH THROUGH THE DODGE CITY AREA AND ON TO A POINT 25 MILES WEST OF GAGE OKLAHOMA. THE BAND WAS NOT MOVING WHILE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE BAND WERE MOVING NORTH NOTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE AREA UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 7:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 250008 KSZ003-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 608 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990 ....THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ... AT 6 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 60 MILES WIDE EAST OF HILL CITY SOUTH THROUGH THE DODGE CITY AREA AND ON SOUTH ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA LINE NORTH OF GAGE OKLAHOMA. THE BAND SHOWS LITTLE MOVEMENT WHILE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE BAND WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE AREA UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 8:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 250102
KSZ003-250200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
704 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990
....THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING RAPIDLY IN STRENGTH IN SOUTHWEST
KANSAS...TORNADO WATCH 153 IN EFFECT TILL 11 PM...
AT 7 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A WEAK DISSIPATING SHOWER 25 MILES EAST
OF DODGE CITY AND AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS
JUST NORTH OF THE OKLAHOMA LINE IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF COMMANCHE
AND BARBER COUNTIES...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT.
HOWEVER...THERE ARE STRONGER STORMS TO THE SOUTH OVER THE EAST END
OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THAT WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO EASTERN COUNTIES
OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ALL ACTIVITY IS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT ABOtUT 25 MPH.
GHOLSONSpecial weather statement, Apr 24, 8:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 250114 COR
KSZ003-250200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT......CORRECTION....TIME....
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
804 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990
....THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING RAPIDLY IN STRENGTH IN SOUTHWEST
KANSAS...TORNADO WATCH 153 IN EFFECT TILL 11 PM...
AT 8 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A WEAK DISSIPATING SHOWER 25 MILES EAST
OF DODGE CITY AND AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS
JUST NORTH OF THE OKLAHOMA LINE IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF COMMANCHE
AND BARBER COUNTIES...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT.
HOWEVER...THERE ARE STRONGER STORMS TO THE SOUTH OVER THE EAST END
OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THAT WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO EASTERN COUNTIES
OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ALL ACTIVITY IS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.
GHOLSONSpecial weather statement, Apr 24, 9:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
TTAAKS KDDC 250223 KSZ003-250300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 920 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH #153 NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTH OF THE NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY LINE...BUT STILL IN EFFECT TILL 11 PM FOR REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 915 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A NEW FORMATION OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE ...AND 25 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...EXTENDING SOUTH INTO THE EAST END OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. STRONGER STORMS ARE IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIBERAL AND ARE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MEADE COUNTY 20 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL. THESE NEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH... ACCOMPANIED BY LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. GHOLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Stevens | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 44 min |
| Apr 25, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 25 min |
| Apr 25, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 41 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.