Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Mar 26, 1991, 4:28 PM CST (22:28 UTC)

Expired

Mar 26, 1991, 5:30 PM CST

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Edwards County, KS, Stafford County, 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.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
428 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...EDWARDS COUNTY...STAFFORD COUNTY
 
AT 425 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND FROM NEAR ST JOHNS IN
STAFFORD COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH COLDWATER TO BUFFALO OKLAHOMA AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAD SPAWNED
TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL ACROSS NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY
AND A TORNADO WAS MOVING INTO KIOWA AND WESTERN PRATT COUNTIES.
 
ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO STAFFORD AND EDWARDS
COUNTIES.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

In the hours before

KSZ003-006-009-262200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
310 PM CST TUE MARCH 26 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE NORTH
OF GAGE. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN
CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS EAST OF ENGLEWOOD... ABOUT 50 MILES
SOUTH OF DODGE CITY.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40
MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA.

LETRO

KSZ003-006-009-262200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
400 PM CST TUE MARCH 26 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCREASING IN INTENSITY...AND MOVING INTO SOUTHERN
   KANSAS...

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL...AND
PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CST.

THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL ARE MOVING RAPIDLY THROUGH THE EASTERN PORTION
OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE ABOUT 40
MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...AND OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE NORTH
OF GAGE.

THE STORMS SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY WILL MOVE NEAR COLDWATER IN COMANCHE
COUNTY BEFOREr 415...AND WILL BE NEAR GREENSBURG BY 430. THE STORMS IN
OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY BY 430 PM.
.
PERSONS IN COLDWATER AND GREENSBURG SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT AS THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.

LETRO

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.