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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 23, 1990Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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 1990-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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

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.