Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 1991, 5:48 PM CST for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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, 5:48 PM CST (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 1991, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado F3 | Pratt, 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, 11.8 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 262348 TORDDC KSC151-270015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 548 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN PRATT COUNTY A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRATT AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER. 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 BL ANKETS...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, Mar 26, 3:19 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-262200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 310 PM CST TUE MARCH 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE NORTH OF GAGE. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS EAST OF ENGLEWOOD... ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. LETRO
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 4:00 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-262200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 400 PM CST TUE MARCH 26 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCREASING IN INTENSITY...AND MOVING INTO SOUTHERN KANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL...AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CST. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL ARE MOVING RAPIDLY THROUGH THE EASTERN PORTION OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...AND OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE NORTH OF GAGE. THE STORMS SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY WILL MOVE NEAR COLDWATER IN COMANCHE COUNTY BEFOREr 415...AND WILL BE NEAR GREENSBURG BY 430. THE STORMS IN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY BY 430 PM. . PERSONS IN COLDWATER AND GREENSBURG SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. LETRO
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, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.