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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 27, 1990Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1990, 4:30 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1990, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1990, 5:25 AM CDT
In force
55 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, 9.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2563 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
2563 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 270930
SVRDDC
KSC145-271030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
430 AM CDT WED JUN 27 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
          ...PAWNEE
 
AT 430 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED JUST WEST OF
THE TOWN OF BURDETT IN PAWNEE COUNTY OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DODGE CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR AND
WILL MOVE INTO ROZEL BY 445 AM AND LARNED BY 515 AM.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny53 min
Jun 27, 5:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCPawnee5 hr

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.