Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1991, 3:28 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1991, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1991, 4:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Finney County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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 15, 1:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-152000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 101 PM CDT WED MAY 15 1991 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATER TODAY... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. NO THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED AT EARLY AFTERNOON...BUT AS THE DAY PROGRESSES THEY ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. IT IS LIKELY THAT SPOTTER ASSISTANCE WILL BE NEEDED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...AND EVERYONE SHOULD REMAIN IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. NOW IS ALSO A GOOD TIME FOR PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS TO BE REVIEWING WHAT ACTIONS YOU WOULD TAKE TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY IN CASE THE SEVERE WEATHER DOES DEVELOP. LETRO
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:06 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 43 min |
| May 15, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| May 15, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 52 min |
| May 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 42 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.