Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1991, 5:49 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1991, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1991, 6:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hodgeman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 19, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
KSZ006-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 357 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1991 AT 355 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM 2MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...BETWEEN JETMORE AND HANSTON. THIS STORM HAD FORMED RAPIDLY AND IS ONE OF SEVERAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE EXPECTED TO FORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH AND WILL PASS OVER HANSTON BY 430 PM. RADAR SHOWS THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL. PERSONS IN HANSTON AND EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE WEATHER AND IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG REINFORCED BUILDING hUNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Stevens | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 5:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 116 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.