Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 18, 1991Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1991, 5:44 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1991, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1991, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 296 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2299 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, Jun 18, 4:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	45 min
Jun 18, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	35 min
Jun 18, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	37 min
Jun 18, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	41 min
Jun 18, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	53 min
Jun 18, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	40 min
Jun 18, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	48 min
Jun 18, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	47 min
Jun 18, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1991 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.