Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1991, 4:01 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1991, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1991, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 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, May 2, 2:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-021930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 236 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PANHANDLE DISTRICTS AND NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA MOVING NORTH TOWARD SOUTHWEST KANSAS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WEST AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA THREATEN TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS BY 245 PM CDT. THE SPECIFIC AREAS UNDER THREAT ARE MORTON AND STEVENS COUNTIES...50 TO 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...AND COMMANCHE AND BARBER COUNTIES...30 TO 50 MILES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND PERHAPS SMALL HAIL. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, May 2, 3:12 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 2, 3:56 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 350 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCREASING IN INTENSITY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 350 PM...SEWARD COUNTY REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL SOUTH OF KISMET...ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS 30 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...BETWEEN MEADE AND COPELAND. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS. . LETRO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 45 min |
| May 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 34 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.