Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 4:48 AM CST for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1990, 4:48 AM CST (10:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1990, 5:45 AM CST
- In force
- 57 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 00:00Z, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 131052 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC145-069-083-131145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
448 AM CST TUE MAR 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...PAWNEE
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...EAST CENTRAL GRAY...CENTRAL HODGEMAN
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM EASTERN GRAY COUNTY
NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH HODGEMAN COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LAwRGE 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, Mar 13, 4:11 AM CST, 37 minutes before
KSZ003-131100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 410 AM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 4 AM RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY AND EXTENDING FROM A POINT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY...JUST SOUTH OF MONTEZUMA IN GRAY COUNTY...NORTHEASTWARD TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THE LINE OF FAST-DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES NORTHEASTWARD PARALLEL TO THE ARKANSAS VALLEY TO A POINT NEAR GT.BEND KANSAS...70 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THE STRONGEST STORM IS CENTERED 30 TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. RADAR INDICATES A STRONG LIKLIHOOD OF HAIL WITH THIS STORM. ALL ACTIVITY IS MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AT 35 TO 40 MPH. GHOLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 4:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Hodgeman | 57 min |
| Mar 13, 6:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 8:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 14 min |
| Mar 13, 9:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
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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.