Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1990, 7:34 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1990, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 280034
SVRDDC
KSC057-280115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
734 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...FORD
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY MOVING TO
THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS
ARE LIKELY IN DODGE CITY BY 740 PM CDT.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE TO A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN A N EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.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 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ009-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 258 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...A THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 257 PM RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM 55 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR AETNA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING OVER OPEN RANGE AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ009-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 358 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE 55 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. AT 358 PM CDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM COLDWATER TO MEDICINE LODGE TO KIOWA. NO MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED AS THESE STORMS SPREAD OUT TO THE WEST AND EAST. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE WHERE HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG WINDS WERE OCCURRING. MEDICINE LODGE CAM EXPECT HEAVY RAIN BY 415 PM. TO THE NORTH... SHOWERS WERE DISSIPATING OVER STAFFORD. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ009-272300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 503 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS... AT 5PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTO\RMS CONTINUE ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT KANSAS OR 10 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE LODGE. HEAVY RAINS AND BRIEF PERIODS OF STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 6:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
KSZ009-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 602 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 6PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED 35 TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY OR 10 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF COLD WATER. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN AN AREA BETWEEN DODGE CITY AND GREAT BEND JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. MOVEMENT ON ALL OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 7:07 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
KSZ009-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 702 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 7PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED IN AN AREA BETWEEN DODGE CITY AND GREAT BEND JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. ANOTHER AREA WAS JUST NORTH OF THE OKLAHOMA BORDER BETWEEN MEADE AND MEDICINE LODGE. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEADE AND OVER PROTECTION. A THIRD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH OF GARDEN CITY BETWEEN JETMORE AND LAKIN. MOVEMENT ON ALL OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 7:27 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
KSZ009-280120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 720 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY... AT 715PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OR NEAR SPEARVILLE. HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED BY POLICE PERSONNEL AT SPEARVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS VERY LITTLE AND IF ANY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. RYBA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 2 hr |
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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.