Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1990, 7:17 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1990, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1990, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stafford 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 160018
SVRDDC
KSC185-160100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
717 PM CDT WED AUG 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...SOUTHERN STAFFORD
AT 710 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES
NORTHWEST OF PRATT KANSAS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITIES OF TROUSDALE AND
BELPRE KANSAS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR AND WILL ARRIVE ST. JOHN KANSAS IN CENTRAL STAFFORD COUNTY BY 745
PM. HAIL THREE FOURTHS INCH OR LARGER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM
AS WELL AS TORRENTIAL RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE 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, Aug 15, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 545 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 ....SPOTTY THUNDERSTORMS COVER A HOST OF COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.... .. AT 540 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MOST ONLY A FEW MILES IN DIAMETER...SPREAD ACROSS 15 DIFFERENT COUNTIES ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORNGEST STORM WAS 30 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY NEAR LAKIN. ANOTHER FAIRLY LARGE THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT ON THE OKLAHOMA LINE. THE CLOSEST STORM OR RAINSHOWER TO DODGE CITY WAS 25 MILES TO THE SOUTHEAST NEAR CLARK COUNTY LAKE. ALL THE STORMS POPPING UP THIS AFTERNON WERE PRETTY SMALL AND FAR APART. THE STORMS WERE MOVhING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 6:38 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-160100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 635 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 ....TWO THUNDERSTORMS WERE GAINING STRENGTH IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS..... AT 630 PM RADAR WAS INDICATING TWO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND EVEN SOME HAIL IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. ONE STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY AND ANOTHER 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRATT KANSAS OR 10 MILES EAST OF KINSLEY. THE STORM NEAR KINSLEY WAS SHOWING SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND THIS STORM WILL TREK ACROSS NORTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY WHICH WAS SATURATED BY 2 INCH RAINS LAST NIGHT. OTHER LESSER STORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGH OUT SOUTHWEST KANSAS. ALL WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE COVER IN A BUILDING OR BASEMENT AND VACATE MOBILE HOMES AND CARS. NOLLER
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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.