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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1991, 5:04 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1991, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1991, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stafford County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 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 282210 TORDDC KSC185-282230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 504 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND 7 MILES SOUTH OF DILLWYN COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. IT WILL MOVE BETWEEN DILLWYN AND ST JOHN...ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF PRATT...BY 530 PM CDT. 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 COVER 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 28, 1:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-281900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1208 AM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES FORD...GRAY...HODGEMAN...BARBER... COMMANCHE...KIOWA...STAFFORD...EDWARDS...PAWNEE...AND PRATT COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO BUILD IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITHIN A GENERAL SHOWER AREA EXPANDING OUT OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...AND ARE CURRENTLY SOUTH OG GARDEN CITY...EXTENDING TOWARD ULYSSES...AND IN MORE WESTERN COUNTIES TOWARD THE COLORADO LINE. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED...BUT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 15 MPH. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST SEVERE ACTIVITY. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 1:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-281900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 112 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES FORD...GRAY...HODGEMAN...BARBER... COMMANCHE...KIOWA...STAFFORD...EDWARDS...PAWNEE...AND PRATT COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO BUILD IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WITHIN A GENERAL SHOWER AREA EXPANDING OUT OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...AND ARE CURRENTLY SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...EXTENDING TOWARD ULYSSES...AND IN MORE WESTERN COUNTIES TOWARD THE COLORADO LINE. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED...BUT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 15 MPH. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST SEVERE ACTIVITY. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 315 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT MID AFTERNOON...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR LAKIN...ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY...TO AROUND 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY NEAR COPELAND. THE RAIN WILL START IN THE GARDEN CITY AREA BY 415 PM CDT. ANOTHER THUNDESTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL... WAS ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY NEAR HANSTON. ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. THIS STORM WAS INCREASING IN INTENSITY AND WILL MOVE INTO THE HANSTON AREA BY 330 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. . LETRO
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ003-006-009-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 400 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN FORD...GRAY...AND HODGEMAN COUNTIES... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PAWNEE...EDWARDS... KIOWA...COMANCHE...STAFFORD...PRATT...AND BARBER COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...NEAR ROZEL IN PAWNEE COUNTY. ITS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE ALONG THE BORDER OF RUSH COUNTY SOUTH OF RUSH CENTER BEFORE 500 PM CDT. THIS STORM COULD CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY0 NEAR LAKIN... ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. . REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TO DEVELOP. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. LETRO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 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.