Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 1991, 6:30 PM CST for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1991, 6:30 PM CST (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1991, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 030036 COR TORDDC KSC007-033-151-030245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED........CORRECTION FOR TIMES.... TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 630 PM CST TUE APR 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN BARBER COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY ...SOUTHWESTERN PRATT COUNTY AT 630 PM CST RADAR INDICATED TWO THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORNADOES. THE FIRST WAS IN NORTHEAST COMANCHE COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF SUN CITY OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT AND MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE SECOND STORM WAS MOVING OUT OF OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWEST BARBER COUNTY AND THE TOWN OF AETNA...ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THESE STORMS INDICATED RECURRING ROTATION AND ALTHOUGH THE TORNADO MAY NOT BE ALWAYS ON THE GROUND...IT IS LIKELY TO REFORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO CO=VER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 2, 2:01 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 3:07 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 300 PM CST TUE APR 02 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST... SHOWERS...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS AT MID AFTERNOON...MOSTLY WEST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE JUST WEST OF DODGE CITY AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED UP TIL 300 PM...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS... AND HEAVY RAINS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSsTORM WATCH MEANS THAT DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP. IF SEVERE WEATHER ACTUALLY OCCURS...WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED. . PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LETRO
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 4:04 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-030000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 400 PM CST TUE APR 02 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. AT 400 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN A LINE FROM NEAR SCOTT CITY TO DODGE CITY...SOUTHEAST INTO OKLAHOMA. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT CIMARRON... 15 MILES WEST OF DODGE CITY...AT AROUND 340 PM CST. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS ...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS...MAY DEVELOP IN THE AREA. IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS... WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED. . PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNIN6GS DURING THE EVENING HOURS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LETRO
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 5:04 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 6:08 PM CST, 22 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CST TUE APR 02 1991 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST COMANCHE COUNTY WAS EXPIRED.... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. AT 600 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM SCOTT CITY...TO DODGE CITY...TO PRATT AND THEN DUE SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA NEAR FREEDOM. STRONGEST STORMS WERE 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PRATT...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRATT AND 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AREAS NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER AND EAST OF A GREENSBURG...COLDWATER LINE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE UNTIL AFTER DARK TONIGHT. . REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP...A WARNING WILL BE ISSUED ONLY WHEN SUCH STORMS HAVE ALREADY FORMED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. STATION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE STORMS. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 2 hr |
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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.