Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1991, 8:30 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1991, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1991, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stevens County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 803 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 24, 2:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-242045-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
249 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991
.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 383 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL TO 25 MILES EAST OF
SCOTT CITY ....
.... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONGIHT ....
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS AT 240 PM CDT
(140 PM MDT). THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED IN KEARNEY COUNTY
ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF KENDALL OR 40 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS
LINE CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE
LAKIN AND DEERFIELD AREAS BY 300 PM CDT (200 PM MDT).
PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP WHICH
CAN PRODCUE LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS TODAY AND
TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING OVER AN INCH OF
RAIN OVER SATURATED SOIL...WHICH COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING
AREAS.
PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THREATENING WEATHER TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND SnHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
STAY TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION...OR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MVTSpecial weather statement, May 24, 3:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-242145-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
343 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991
.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 383 IS IN EFFECT WEST OF A NORTH SOUTH
LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL TO 25 MILES EAST OF SCOTT
CITY....
.... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ....
AT 340 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO MORTON
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART...OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES... IN THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL BE IN THE ELKHART AND WILBURTON AREAS BY 445 PM CDT.
REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FROM
THESE THUNDERSTOMS MAY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING ALONG STREETS AND LOW
LYING AREAS.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THREATENING WEATHER...AND SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY. STAY TUNE TO YOUR
LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION....OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MVTSpecial weather statement, May 24, 3:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-242145-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO TIME IN 1ST PARAGRAPH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
350 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991
.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 383 IS IN EFFECT WEST OF A NORTH SOUTH
LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL TO 25 MILES EAST OF SCOTT
CITY....
.... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ....
AT 340 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO MORTON
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART...OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES... IN THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL BE IN THE ELKHART AND WILBURTON AREAS BY 350 PM CDT.
REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FROM
THESE THUNDERSTOMS MAY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING ALONG STREETS AND LOW
LYING AREAS.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THREATENING WEATHER...AND SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY. STAY TUNE TO YOUR
LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION....OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MVTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 65 min |
| May 24, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 57 min |
| May 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Stevens | 60 min |
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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.