Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1991, 7:03 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1991, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1991, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 23, 1:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ006-009-231930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 127 PM CDT THU MAY 23 1991 ...THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE SHIFTED SOUTHWARD IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 125 PM CDT...HEAVY RAINFALL HAD DIMINISHED IN THE PRATT AND GREENSBURAREA...BUT HAD INCREASED IN THE AREA SOUTH OF ASHLAND AND PROTECTION... ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. A REPORT FROM NEAR SITKA IN SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY INDICATED 1.76 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS AND STILL RAINING HARD. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES HAS PROBABLY OCCURRED IN SOME AREAS SOUTH OF ASHLAND AND PROTECTION. THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING THE RAIN WERE REMAINING ESSENTIALLY STATIONARY...AND WITH FURTHER RAINFALL SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS IS LIKELY. MOTORISTS ON ROUTES 180 AND 183 IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTY SHOULD USE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON AS ROADWAYS MAY BE FLOODED IN SPOTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON THE INCREASE ELSEWHERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...AND WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. LETRO
Special weather statement, May 23, 2:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ006-009-232045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 237 PM CDT THU MAY 23 1991 ....THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY IN SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY.... AT 235 PM...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO LINGER IN SOUTHEAST CLARK AND COMANCHE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE LOCATED 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY AND SHOWED LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM HAS DEVELOPED JUST NORTHEAST OF ASHLAND OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY...AND ALSO HAS SHOWN LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO DUMP LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST FEW HOURS SOUTH OF ASHLAND AND PROTECTION. THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING ALL THE RAIN ARE REMAINING ESSENTIALLY STATIONARY AND WITH FURTHER RAINFALL...SOME ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY BE FLOODED IN SPOTS. PERSONS OUTDOORS...OR MOTORISTS TRAVELING IN CLARK AND COMANCHE COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNE TO THEIR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. MVT
Special weather statement, May 23, 2:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
KSZ006-009-232045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT....CORRECTION TO 4TH LINE.... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 248 PM CDT THU MAY 23 1991 ....THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY IN SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY.... AT 235 PM...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO LINGER IN SOUTHEAST CLARK AND WESTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE LOCATED 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY AND SHOWED LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM HAS DEVELOPED JUST NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY...AND ALSO HAS SHOWN LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO DUMP LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN SOUTHEAST CLARK COUNTY. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST FEW HOURS SOUTH OF ASHLAND AND PROTECTION. THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING ALL THE RAIN ARE REMAINING ESSENTIALLY STATIONARY AND WITH FURTHER RAINFALL...SOME ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY BE FLOODED IN SPOTS. PERSONS OUTDOORS...OR MOTORISTS TRAVELING IN CLARK AND COMANCHE COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNE TO THEIR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. MVT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 63 min |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 63 min |
| May 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 31 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton, Stevens | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 57 min |
| May 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Morton | 65 min |
| May 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 65 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.