Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Dodge City, KS

KSZ006-003-009-180130

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
730 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 730 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED ONLY SOME ISOLATED LIGHT RAINSHOWERS OVER
THE CENTRAL PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH
RIPPED ACROSS THE AREA AT NEARLY 50 MILES AN HOUR WAS ALREADY MOVING
ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AND OUT OF OUR AREA.  MEANWHILE...ANOTHER VERY
STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WAS
NOW 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIBERAL AND MOVING NORTHEAST RAPIDLY.

ALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS COUNTIES HAD
EXPIRED BUT THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.  NEW STORMS COULD
DEVELOP AT ANY TIME AND RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS ARE ENCOURAGED
TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE WESTHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER
SHOULD THREATENING CONDITIONS APPROACH.
JOHNSON

KSZ006-003-009-190240

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
841 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 841 PM CDT A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS NEAR MC COOK NEBRASKA WITH
A COLD FRONT SOUTHWEST OUT OF THE LOW THROUGH HOXIE KANSAS...LEOTI...
AND SYRACUSE.  NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND ALONG
THE FRONT AND MORE WERE FORMING.  MEANWHILE...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAGE AND MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.

VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAD OCCURED ALONG AND BEHIND THE COLD FRONT AS
IT MOVED EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.  ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS
WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS AT PRESENT...THE COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY BRING
MORE STORMS WITH IT AS IT MOVES THROUGH GARDEN CITY AROUND 1030 PM
AND DODGE CITY AROUND MIDNIGHT.
JOHNSON

KSZ006-003-009-190340

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
940 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 940 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE
COLD FRONT FROM HILL CITY TO A POINT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY.
THIS LINE WILL MOVE INTO GARDEN CITY BY 1015 PM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED OVER BUFFALO OKLAHOMA AND WAS MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS STORM HAD A HISTORY OF
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND WILL REACH AETNA KANSAS IN SOUTHWEST BARBER
COUNTY BY AROUND 1030 PM.

THE COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH GARDEN CITY AROUND 1030 PM AND DODGE
CITY AROUND 1115 PM WITH TH|E SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT
ENDING SHORTLY AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH.
JOHNSON

KSZ006-003-009-190430

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1030 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 400 AM CDT...

AT 1030 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE
COLD FRONT FROM HILL CITY TO A POINT 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
GARDEN CITY.  THE FRONT HAD JUST PASSED GARDEN CITY AND SKIES WERE
CLEAR BEHIND IT.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WHICH HAD EARLIER COVERED NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA
WITH LARGE HAIL WAS LOCATED ON THE KANSAS COLORADO BORDER 45 MILES
SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PRATT AND WAS MOVING INTO THE TOWN OF AETNA IN
SOUTHWEST BARBER COUNTY.  THIS STORM HAD BECOME MUCH WEAKER AND WAS
NOW PRODUCING ONLY BRIE&F HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.

JOHNSON

KSZ006-003-009-190500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1111 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...A VERY STRON THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY...

AT 11 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILE NORTHEAST
OF GARDEN CITY.  THIS STORM IS OVER OPEN COUNTRY AND IS OF NO THREAT
TO POPULATED AREAS.  HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS
STORM.

NO MOVEMENT WITH THIS STORM AS IT BUILDS TO THE SOUTH.

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

RYBA