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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 1991Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1991, 5:45 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1991, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1991, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Stevens County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 29, 5:52 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Stevens, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1991-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1991-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2331 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton52 min
May 28, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton43 min
May 28, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny30 min
May 29, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade44 min
May 29, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord79 min
May 29, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark48 min
May 29, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman50 min
May 29, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney28 min

Nearby

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

Sources

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.