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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 25, 1990Barber County, Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1990, 2:15 AM CDT for Barber County, Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 1990, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 1990, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barber County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 250715
SVRDDC
KSC007-151-097-250815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
215 AM CDT WED APR 25 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      NORTHWEST BARBER...WESTERN PRATT...EASTERN KIOWA

 210 AM  CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH
WEST OF PRATT NEAR BELVIDERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY
RAIN STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITHIN THIS THUNDERSTORM.

HIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH PRATT BY 3 AM.   THE TORNADO WATCH
OR SOUTHERN KANSAS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM.

   ---------  GO TO NEXT PAGE FOR CALL TO ACTION  ---------
 ***** FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ****

GET TO A SAFE SHELTER...SUCH AS A REINFORCED BUILDING.   THIS
THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DANGEROUS
;IGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREAMS
AND LOW LYING AREAS.  A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT SO BE PREPARED
IN CASE A TORNADO DEVELOPES.

 DEL

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, 9:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 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, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	44 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, 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.