Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 5:36 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gray 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
536 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...SOUTHWESTERN GRAY
AT 530 PM RADAR STILL INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST
GRAY COUNTY 25 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT PASSED OVER COPELAND KANSAS.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT BUT TENDED TO DRIFT SOUTH
BY SOUTHWEST TOWARDS THE MEADE COUNTY LINE.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER
IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.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, Jun 9, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-091815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 216 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS..... AT 210 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF THUNDER- STORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ORIENTED NORTHWEST -SOUTHEAST IN CLARK COUNTY KS...EXTENDING FROM NEAR CLARK COUNTY LAKE ...35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...TO THE OKLAHOMA LINE IN SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY. THEY APPEAR TO BE PART OF LINE OF THUNDEWRSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO A POINT APPROXIMATELY 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF GAGE OK. FORMATION HAS BEEN SO RAPID THAT MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINECD... BUT AN EASTERLY MOVEMENT IS ANTICIPATED. BRIEF HARD RAINS, GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-091815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...SPELLING 5TH LINE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 216 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS..... AT 210 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF THUNDER- STORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ORIENTED NORTHWEST -SOUTHEAST IN CLARK COUNTY KS...EXTENDING FROM NEAR CLARK COUNTY LAKE ...35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...TO THE OKLAHOMA LINE IN SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY. THEY APPEAR TO BE PART OF LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO A POINT APPROXIMATELY 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF GAGE OK. FORMATION HAS BEEN SO RAPID TDHAT MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED... BUT AN EASTERLY MOVEMENT IS ANTICIPATED. BRIEF HARD RAINS, GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-092115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 318 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS..... AT 310 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONG STORMS WERE IN EASTERN CLARK AND WESTERN COMMANHE COUNTIES, KS. ...30 TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER AT COLDWATER...IN COMMANCHE CO....REPORTS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL JUST SOUTH OF PROTECTION KS....40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS REPORT AT 310 PM CDT. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE NEEN RECEIVED AS OF 315 PM. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDS SOUTHEASTARD INTO NORTHWEST OKLA- HOMA. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN COLDWATER KS. AT ABOUT 330 PM CDT. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-092115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...SPELLING 2ND LINE...COMMANCHE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 318 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS..... AT 310 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONG STORMS WERE IN EASTERN CLARK AND WESTERN COMMANHE COUNTIES, KS. ...30 TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER AT COLDWATER...IN COMMANCHE CO....REPORTS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL JUST SOUTH OF PROTECTION KS....40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS REPORT AT 310 PM CDT. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE NEEN RECEIVED AS OF 315 PM. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDS SOUTHEASTARD INTO NORTHWEST OKLA- HOMA. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN COLDWATER KS. AT ABOUT 330 PM CDT. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 405 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...NEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS NEAR DODGE CITY.... AT 403 PM CDT RADAR WAS INDICATING A NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY NEAR ENSIGN. A SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OVER PROTECTION AND COLDWATER KANSAS. ALL THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR DROPPING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS ALONG A LINE FROM FORD TO MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO ARRIVE THEIR AREA BY 530 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR A 2 TIER ROW OF COUNTIES ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. STAY CLOSE TO SHELTER THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-092215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 427 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADED FOR CIMARRON IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.... AT 425 PM CDT RADAR WAS INDICATING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OVER MONTEZUMA KS. THE STORM WAS TRACKING TOWARDS CIMARRON KANSAS AND WILL ARRIVE BY 515 PM. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY ESPECIALLY CIMARRON CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM CIMARRON TO MEDICINE LODGE AND WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR A 2 TIER ROW OF COUNTIES ALONG' THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. STAY CLOSE TO SHELTER THIS AFTERNOON. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.