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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 1991Finney County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1991, 12:32 AM CDT for Finney County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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
Jun 23, 1991, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1991, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Finney County, KS, Haskell County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 12:50 AM CDTHail 1Haskell, 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 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 467 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 22, 7:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ003-006-230815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
811 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN
   COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

AT 8 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN SOUTHWEST
KANSAS. HOWEVER....STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN EASTERN
COLORADO...EXTENDING FROM THE ARKANSAS VALLEY AROUND LAMAR COLORADO...
NORTHWARD TO A POINT ROUGHLY 20 MILES WEST OF GOODLAND.
STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS BROAD LINE OF STORMS WERE AT EITHER END...
JUST EASTH OF LAMAR COLORADO AND ON THE COLORADO LINE 30 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND.

THIS LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THE STORM JUST EAST
OF LAMAR HAS PRODUCED LARGE HAIL DURING THE PAST HOUR. ON ITS PRESENT
COURSE THIS STORM WILL CROSS THE KANSAS LINE JUST NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS
VALLEY IN NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY AROUND 845 PM.        GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
KSZ003-006-230910-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
9 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN
   COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

AT 9 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES A STRONG LINE OF THUNDESTORMS MOVING INTO
EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS FROM EASTERN COLORADO. A PARTICULARLY STRONG
THUNDERSTORM IN THE ARKANSAS VALLEY...CENTERED ABOUT 20 MILES EAST-
NORTHEAST OF LAMAR COLORADO IS APPROACHING THE COLORADO BORDER 50
MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY AND WILL BE ENTERING NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY
BY 915 CDT. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELL EAST OF LAMAR PRODUCED LARGE HAIL
AROUND LAMAR COLORADO AN HOUR OR SO AGO.

THIS LINE OKF STORMS IS MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
KSZ003-230500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1103 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991

....A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 11 PM CDT RADAR WAS SHOWING A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND
RAINSHOWERS APPROACHING JOHNSON AND LAKIN KANSAS FROM THE NORTHWEST.
THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS BAND WAS 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY AND
WILL BE IN THE JOHNSON AND LAKIN AREAS BETWEEN 1130 AND MIDNIGHT CDT.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR KENDAL KANSAS AT 11 PM AND WAS MOVING
TOWARDS LAKIN KANSAS...ARRIVING LAKIN AROUND 1130 PM CDT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR FAR WESTERN KANSAS UNTIL
MID[NIGHT...INCLUDING KEARNY AND STANTON COUNTIES.

IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR INTERIOR ROOM OF YOUR HOME.  ABONDON MOBILE HOMES.

NOLLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton42 min
Jun 22, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny37 min
Jun 23, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray55 min
Jun 23, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord62 min
Jun 23, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark63 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.