Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1990, 5:57 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1990, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1990, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 232358
SVRDDC
KSC075-093-240100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
657 PM CDT (557 PM MDT) MON JUL 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT (700 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...EASTERN HAMILTON...WESTERN KEARNY
AT 700 PM CDT/600 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES WEST OF
GARDEN CITY OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN AND MOVING SOUTH AT 12
MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE OVER THE TOWN OF KENDALL BY 730 PM
CDT/630 PM MDT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PRNEPARE 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, Jul 23, 4:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
KSZ003-232245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 519 PM CDT MON JUL 23 1990 AT 519 PM RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 50 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY OR 10 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AND PARTS OF EASTERN COLORADO AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE NIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMM WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR FORD...HODGEMAN AND CLARK COUNTIES AND ALL COUNTIES WEST OF THAT LINE. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:18 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ003-006-240015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 615 PM CDT MON JUL 23 1990 AT 615 PM RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY OR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AND PARTS OF EASTERN COLORADO AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS DURING THE NIGHT NIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR FORD...HODGEMAN AND CLARK COUNTIES AND ALL COUNTIES WEST OF THAT LINE. JOHNSON
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.