Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 10:43 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 10:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Grant, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 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 100342
SVRDDC
KSC067-100415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1043 PM CDT P JUN 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...SOUTHERN GRANT
AT 1040 PM RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF
ULYSSES KANSAS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF LARGE
HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING DUE EAST TOWARDS
SATANTA KANSAS AND WILL ARRIVE THEIR COMMUNITY BY 1115 PM.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE 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, Jun 9, 6:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-090005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 615 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...ALL SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS FOR NOW...... AT 613 PM CDT RADAR WAS NOT INDICATING ANY SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE WARNING FOR SOUTHWEST GRAY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE ON TIME AT 615PM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY NEAR SYRACUSE TO AS FAR EAST AS PRATT KANSAS. THE STRONGEST AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTY NEAR SUBLETTE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. 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 EVENING. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 707 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING 40 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY.... AT 705 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS ON THE KEARNY/HAMILTON COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF KENDAL KS. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND AT LEAST PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH THE POTENTIAL OF TURNING INTO A SEVERE STORM. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THIS THUNDERSTORM NEAR KENDAL SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION AND SEEK SHELTER IF NEEDED. OTHER LIGHT TO MODERATE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOOSLY SCATTERED IN AN AREA SOUTH OF A oLINE FROM SYRACUSE KANSAS TO PRATT KANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS THIS EVENING WERE VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST. SOUTHWEST KANSAS REMAINS IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:43 PM CDT, 2 hours before
KSZ003-006-009-100230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 840 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING KANSAS FROM COLORADO AT 840 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN COLORADO MOVING TOWARDS KANSAS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WERE JUST CROSSING THE KANSAS BORDER AT ELKHART. THE STORMS STRETCH FROM THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE TO NORTH OF GOODLAND. MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WILL LIKELY SEE SOME MEASURABLE RAINFALL STILL TO COME LATER TONIGHT AS THE RAIN MOVES EAST. SPOTTY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITH THE STRONGER STORMS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #436 IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FOURTH OF KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF GARDEN AND LIBERAL. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 9:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-100330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 930 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS COVER THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF WESTERN KANSAS........ AT 928 PM CDT A BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS HAVE CROSSED THE KANSAS BORDER STRETCHING FROM ELKHART TO JOHNSON TO SYRACUSE TO TRIBUNE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL SWEEP ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...ARRIVING ULYSSES AROUND 1030 PM...GARDEN CITY AROUND 1130 PM AND DODGE CITY BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 1 AM. MEASURABLE RAIN FALL IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS TONIGHT. FOR THOSE LOCALITIES ALREADY SATURATED BY EARLIER STORMS THIS EVENING ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR ROADWAY...CREEK OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING. PERSONS TRAVELING TONIGHT ON COUNTRY ROADS AFTER A HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF ROAD WASHOUTS AND OTHER POTENTIAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY RAINS. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 10:00 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 10 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN WESTERN KS... AT 10 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM BEARING PEA SIZE HAIL 25 MILES DUE WEST OF ULYSSES. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE ULYSSES VICINITY AROUND 1045 PM. OTHER WEAK TO MODERATE THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS STRETCHED FROM THE OKLAHOMA BORDER AT ROLLA KANSAS NORTH TO NEAR LAKIN AND BEYOND. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT WITH THE BEST CHANCES BEING IN STANTON COUNTY../JOHNSON KANSAS/ AND GRANT COUNTY../ULYSSES KANSAS. PERSONS TRAVELING TONIGH T ON COUNTRY ROADS AFTER A HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF ROAD WASHOUTS AND OTHER POTENTIAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY RAINS. NOLLER
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.