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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 19, 1990Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1990, 9:08 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
Jun 19, 1990, 9:08 PM MDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1990, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 10:00 PM MDTTornado F2Hamilton, 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
380 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee29 min
Jun 19, 7:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt36 min
Jun 19, 7:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt26 min
Jun 19, 9:39 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton36 min
Jun 19, 10:00 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCGrant, Stanton45 min
Jun 19, 10:39 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCGrant, Haskell36 min
Jun 19, 11:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.