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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 14, 1990Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 3:25 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1990, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1990, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Clark 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1805 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-268 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 142034 COR
SVRDDC
KSC025-069-119-142130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING .......CORRECTIONS...COUNTIES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
325 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
          ...EASTERN MEADE...GRAY...WESTERN CLARK

AT 315 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN GRAY
COUNTY...AND IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE 20 TO 25 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST
EAST-SOUTHEAST OF LIBERAL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE STORMS IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
WILL BE ENTERING EASTERN MEADE AND WESTERN CLARK COUNTIES WITHIN THE
NEXT HALF HOUR.


A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

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.

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
PtASSED.

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 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-142100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
305 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BEAVER COUNTY OKLAHOMA...20 MILES SOUTHEAST
   OF LIBERAL....

AT 3 PM RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN BEAVER
COUNTY, OK. MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS COMPLEX OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO MEADE CO., KS...20 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL
KS...NO LATER THAN 320 PM.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND
POSSIBLY HAIL.

GHOLSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche43 min
Jun 14, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Meade65 min
Jun 14, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade33 min
Jun 14, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every 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.