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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 23, 1990Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1990, 8:09 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 1990, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1990, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 240110
SVRDDC
KSC093-240200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
809 PM CDT (709 PM MDT) MON APR 23 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT (800 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
          ...EAST CENTRAL KEARNY
 
AT 805 CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKIN MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH
NORTHEAST KEARNEY COUNTY...25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY WITHIN
THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES.
 
 
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, Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 232200
KSZ003-232100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
5 PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST
    KANSAS...

AT 5 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES
WIDE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY...SOUTHWESTWARD TO
THE COLORADO BORDER IN JOHNSON COUNTY...40 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES.

THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH A$ND IS
EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN STRENGTH AND COVERAGE THE NEXT HOUR. LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WITH GUSTY
WINDS AND THE POSSIBLITY OF SMALL HAIL.

GHOLSON

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 232330
KSZ003-240030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
630PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE
    HAIL IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 620 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 80 MILES
WIDE EXTENDING FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF KEARNEY COUNTY...30 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE COLORADO LINE 40 MILES
WEST OF ULYSSES.

STRONGEST STORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...40 MILES
WEST-SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES.
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER AT JOHNSON KS...IN STANTON CO....55 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY REPORTED A 10 MINUTE PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN AND
PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL BEGINNING AT 550 PM CDT. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL.                                        GHOLSON

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 7:29 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

TTAAKS KDDC 240029
KSZ003-240130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
730 PM CDT MON APR 23 1990

....THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL CONTINUE
    IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 720 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND
SHOWERS WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM NORTHERN
FINNEY COUNTY...20 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY...SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE
COLORADO LINE 40 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES.

STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY, AND IN SOUTH-
EAST HAMILTON COUNTY...50 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY.

THE PUBLIC REPORTS PEA/SIZE HAIL...BUT NOT A GREAT DEAL OF RAIN....
15 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY AT 7 PM CDT. THqESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
GHOLSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	40 min
Apr 23, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	53 min
Apr 24, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	40 min
Apr 24, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	46 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.