Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 1990, 4:54 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 21, 1990, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 1990, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 5:13 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Ford, 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 12:00Z, 9.9 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
- 340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDDC 212153
SVRDDC
KSC057-212230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
454 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
...NORTHEASTERN FORD
AT 455 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAD
PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF 74 MILES AN HOUR AT THE DODGE CITY REGIONAL
AIRPORT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.]
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.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 21, 3:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-212100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 315 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 1990 AT 310 PM RADAR SHOWED AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY TO 40 M/ILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. CJ
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 4:13 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-212145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 413 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 1990 ....A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.... AT 415 RADAR SHOWED A MATCHED PAIR OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES WEST AND 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER STORM WAS 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JETMORE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING A LITTLE LIGHTNING AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 4:48 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-212215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 447 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 1990 ....A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.... AT 447 PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND VERY STRONG WINDS WAS MOVING ACROSS THE DODGE CITY AREA. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO NEARLY 74 MILES AN HOUR AT THE REGIONAL AIRPORT IN DODGE CITY AND MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING IN THE DUODGE CITY AREA. OTHER ISOLATED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. JOHNSON
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.