Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1990, 7:01 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 15, 1990, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | 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, 0.0 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
- 421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 160001
SVRDDC
KSC067-160045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
701 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...SOUTHERN GRANT
AT 7PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF GARDEN CITY OR JUST EAST OF ULYSSES KANSAS NEAR HICKOCK. THIS STORM
WILL LIKELY PRODUCE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WITH
STRONG WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH AND WAS
HEADING DIRECTLY FOR MOSCOW KANSAS WITH AN EXPECTED ARRIVAL IN MOSCOW
BY 530 PM.
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.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, Jul 15, 3:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
KSZ009-152100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 303 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 3 PM RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ON THE OKLAHOMA LINE IN SOUTHWEST BARBER COUNTY...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHWEST MEADE COUNTY...55 MILES SOUTH- WEST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORM IN SOUTHWEST MEADE COUNTY WAS ON THE NORTH END OF A LINE OF STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED SOUTH- WESTWARD THROUGH BEAVER COUNTY IN THE EAST END OF THE OKLAHOMA PAN- HANDLE SOUTHEAST OF LIBERAL. RADAR INDICATES THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS NEAR THE OKLAHOM A LINE. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ009-152130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 355 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 355 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A NEW RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF DODGE CITY NEAR THE COMMUNITY IF INGALLS. THE STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE DUE EAST SLOWLY AT 5 TO 10 MILES PER HOUR AND MOVE THROUGH CIMARRON KANSAS BY 415 AND INTO THE DODGE CITY AREA BY 430 PM. SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STROFNG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPE%CTED WITH THIS STORM. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION THIS AFTERNOON TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A STRONG REINFORCED SHELTER. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
KSZ009-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 435 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 435 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES DUE WEST OF DODGE CITY BETWEEN MONTEZUMA AND CIMARRON KANSAS. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY AND WAS GROWING IN SIZE TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. A TREMENDOUS AND UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING WAS INCLUDED WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT USE HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES OR THE TELEPHONE DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST HAVE DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY SINCE 4 PM. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION THIS AFTERNOON TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A STRONG REINFORCED SHELTER. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
KSZ009-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 535 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 530 PM THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GREY COUNTY EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN GREY COUNTY 25 MILES AND WERE EXPANDING WEST INTO SOUTHERN FINNEY COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN STILL EXISTS WITH THESE THUNDER/ STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY EXCEPT FOR THEIR EXPANSION TO THE WEST. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING 25 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY IN HODGEMAN COUNTY NEAR JETMORE. THESE STORMS ARE TO NEW TO DETECT A DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. FORD COUNTY IS INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH AREA. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:01 PM CDT, 1 hour before
KSZ009-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 6 PM STRONG TWO SEPERATE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACTIVE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 20 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY STRETCHING EAST TO WEST ALONG THE HASKELL...FINNEY COUNTY LINE. HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY IN THESE STORMS. THE SECOND LESS THREATNING AREA OF STORMS WAS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OVER HANSTON KANSAS. THIS STORM ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. FORD COUNTY IS INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH AREA. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:30 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
KSZ009-160130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 630 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 630 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS BASICALLY BOUNDED IN A TRIANGLE SHAPE FROM GARDEN CITY TO DODGE CITY TO LIBERAL. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS TRIANGLE AREA WERE ALONG THE FINNEY...HASKELL COUNTY LINE. AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN WAS 25 MIES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR HANSTON THAT WAS SLOWLY DISSAPATING. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CHANGED DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT AND WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THIS WOULD MEAN THAT ULYSSES...SATANTA AND SUBLETE... COMMUNITIES ALL SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY STAND THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN THIS EVENING. DODGE CITYS AND GARDEN CITYS CHANCES3 FOR RAIN ARE LESSONING. TORNADO WATCH 621 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.