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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 26, 1991Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 1991, 4:41 PM CST for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 26, 1991, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 1991, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Stafford County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 26, 4:55 PM CST	Tornado F0	Stafford, 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 12:00Z, 10.7 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.

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: 3441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 262241 RRA
TORDDC
KSC185-262315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
441 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...CENTRAL STAFFORD COUNTY
 
AT 435 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO WEST OF ST. JOHNS
IN STAFFORD COUNTY...60 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM
WILL APPROACH ST. JOHNS BEFORE 500 PM CST.
 
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
SL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	57 min
Mar 26, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	35 min
Mar 26, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Stafford	62 min
Mar 26, 5:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pratt	13 min
Mar 26, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	52 min
Mar 26, 5:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pratt	27 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1991 Every tornado warning in 1991 Tornadoes 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.