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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 26, 1995Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 5:44 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 6:33 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 2:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995

AFTN SFC ANLYS HAS SFC LOW CONTG OVER SERN NM WITH WRM FNT MAKING SLOW
NWRD PROGRESS.  SUNSHINE OVER ERN CO HAS ALLOWED SFC HEATING TO DESBLZ
ATMS THAT AREA WITH TSTMS DVLPG OVER SWRN TX/SE NM INTO ERN CO.  TSTMS
DVLPG INTO SWRN KS NOT INC IN INTENSITY TOO MUCH AS THEY WORK NORTHWRD
INTO COOLER AIR.  FEEL THIS WILL BE THE CASE THIS EVE BUT SOME SVR WX NOT
TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION AS SOME SVR COULD STRAY INTO THE AREA FRM CO
OR NM THS EVE.  FEEL THIS MRE OF A RW+ EVENT.  TROPICAL CONNECTION EVDNT
ON WV IMGRY SHIFTING EWRD SO FEEL ERN PTN AREA AT HIGHEST RISK.  MODELS
INDCT UPPR SYS CLOSING OFF SOME MORE THAN PREV FCSTS.  NGM SHOWS MORE
ENERGY ROTATING THRU BOTTOM OF LOW ACRSS AREA SAT.  WITH COLD AIR ALFT
AFTN HEATING MAY FIRE OFF A FEW TSTMS AGAIN.

GERARD

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.