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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 25, 1995Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 8:49 PM CST for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1995, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1995, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Clark County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 260250 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC025-260315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
849 PM CST SAT MAR 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 849 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 8 MILES
SOUTH OF MINNEOLA...30 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY...MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER OPEN COUNTRY
SOUTHEAST OF MINNEOLA. IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL LARGER THAN
DIMES...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.

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 Mar 25, 3:33 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 3:33 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 PM CST SAT MAR 25 1995

1/3 OF ALL ALLIGATORS NOW DEAD. SIMPLIFY. LIKELY POPS AHD OF TRML/MSTR
AXIS ALG AND E OF HWY 83 FM SCOTT CITY TO LIBERAL. PER MRNG ANALS...SFC
LOW COMING OUT ARND AMA WITH H5 LOW OVR 4 CRNRS...OR LTL S AND LTL SLWR
THAN ETA THUS WL BASE MOST OF FCST ON ETA AND END POPS GRDLY TWRDS MRNG
AS LO TO CNK BY THEN...THAT IS TIL NW FLOW SLAMS CD WEDGE IN W/ CD AIR
SC AND FLURRIES TMRW EVE. ALL MDL NUMBERS WAY TOO WARM IN LATER PDS AND
PRBLY TOO COOL TNGT GIVEN RAIN & CLDS.

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 9:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	26 min
Mar 25, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	28 min
Mar 25, 10:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.