Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1991, 2:42 AM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1991, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1991, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 22, 9:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ003-006-230910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 9 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 9 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES A STRONG LINE OF THUNDESTORMS MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS FROM EASTERN COLORADO. A PARTICULARLY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE ARKANSAS VALLEY...CENTERED ABOUT 20 MILES EAST- NORTHEAST OF LAMAR COLORADO IS APPROACHING THE COLORADO BORDER 50 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY AND WILL BE ENTERING NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY BY 915 CDT. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELL EAST OF LAMAR PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AROUND LAMAR COLORADO AN HOUR OR SO AGO. THIS LINE OKF STORMS IS MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ003-230500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1103 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991 ....A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 11 PM CDT RADAR WAS SHOWING A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS APPROACHING JOHNSON AND LAKIN KANSAS FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS BAND WAS 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY AND WILL BE IN THE JOHNSON AND LAKIN AREAS BETWEEN 1130 AND MIDNIGHT CDT. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR KENDAL KANSAS AT 11 PM AND WAS MOVING TOWARDS LAKIN KANSAS...ARRIVING LAKIN AROUND 1130 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR FAR WESTERN KANSAS UNTIL MID[NIGHT...INCLUDING KEARNY AND STANTON COUNTIES. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM OF YOUR HOME. ABONDON MOBILE HOMES. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.