Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1990, 3:58 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 21, 1990, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:22 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 58 | Pawnee, 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 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 212059
SVRDDC
KSC145-212200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
358 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...PAWNEE
AT 353 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF
PRATT OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LARNED IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THIS
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE OVER
LARNED BY 430 PM.
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SEWARD
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 415 PM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
BEGUN TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST.
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.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.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 21, 10:21 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-211630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1018 AM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM STALLED NORTH OF OKLAHOMA BORDER NEAR MEADE.... AT 1015 AM CDT RADAT INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS SLOWED ITS EASTERLY MOVEMENT AND BECOME NEARLY STALLED 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY OR JUST SOUTH OF MEADE KANSAS. VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL ANDv TORRENTIAL RAINS RE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PERSONS IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF MEADE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCEDSHELTER AND WAIT THE STORM OUT. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 11:16 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-211700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1115 AM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CLARK CANCELLED EARLY... AT 1115 RADAR HAS SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN CLARK HAS DIMINISHED CONSIDERABLY AND ITS WARNING HAS BEEN TERMINATED. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING 5 MILES WEST OF DODGE CITY AND BETWEEN DODGE CITY SOUTH TO ASHLAND KANSAS. A 25 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS CENTERED OVER DODGE CITY AND STRETCHES FROM OKLAHOMA NORTH TO NEAR THE NEBRASKA LINE. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-211830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1210 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PLAGUE HARVEST IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS AT 1205 PM RADAR INDICATED A 25 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED JUST EAST OF DODGE CITY THAT STRETCHED FROM THE OKLAHOMA BORDER NORTH TO LACROSSE KANSAS. THE CITIES OF COLDWATER..GREENSBURG..AND KINSLEY WERE IN THE CENTER OF THE STORM SYSTEM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE ALONG A PROTECTION..PRATT..LARNED LINE BY 1 PM. DODGE CITY RECEIVED 0.08 HUNDRETHS FROM A BRIEF THUNDERSTORM JUST BEFORE NOON. HEAVIER AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR MORE WILL LIKELY FALL ITN THOSE COUNTIES ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER..ESPECIALLY MEADE AND CLARK COUNTIES WHERE THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 66 min |
| Jun 21, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.