Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 1991, 5:21 PM CST for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 2, 1991, 5:21 PM CST (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1991, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Comanche, KS | |
| Apr 2, 5:45 PM CST | Hail 1 | Comanche, 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 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 022322 RRA TORDDC KSC033-030000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 521 PM CST TUE APR 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY AT 520 PM CST A TORNADO WAS 22 MILES SOUTH OF COLDWATER OVER NORTHWEST WOODS COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST COMANCHE COUNTY IN KANSAS. 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 LOWEST9 FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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, 11:53 AM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1150 AM CST TUE APR 02 1991 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING... A STRONG UPPER ATMOSPHERE DISTURBANCE OVER NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO WAS EXPECTED TO COUPLE WITH WARM SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND INCREASING HUMIDITIES IN THE AREAS FROM DODGE CITY EAST INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. THE END RESULT COULD BE SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AFTER AROUND 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER HOWEVER WAS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. STORMS THAT FORM IN THIS ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE WELL OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST KANSAS AREA BY MIDNIGHT. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:01 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 3:07 PM CST, 2 hours 14 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, 1 hour 17 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, 17 minutes before
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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.