Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1991, 1:49 PM CDT for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1991, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1991, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Apr 28, 1:08 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-281900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1208 AM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES FORD...GRAY...HODGEMAN...BARBER... COMMANCHE...KIOWA...STAFFORD...EDWARDS...PAWNEE...AND PRATT COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO BUILD IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITHIN A GENERAL SHOWER AREA EXPANDING OUT OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...AND ARE CURRENTLY SOUTH OG GARDEN CITY...EXTENDING TOWARD ULYSSES...AND IN MORE WESTERN COUNTIES TOWARD THE COLORADO LINE. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED...BUT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 15 MPH. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST SEVERE ACTIVITY. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 1:11 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-281900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 112 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES FORD...GRAY...HODGEMAN...BARBER... COMMANCHE...KIOWA...STAFFORD...EDWARDS...PAWNEE...AND PRATT COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO BUILD IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITHIN A GENERAL SHOWER AREA EXPANDING OUT OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...AND ARE CURRENTLY SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...EXTENDING TOWARD ULYSSES...AND IN MORE WESTERN COUNTIES TOWARD THE COLORADO LINE. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED...BUT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 15 MPH. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST SEVERE ACTIVITY. GHOLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 26 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.