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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 8, 1995Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 10.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1510 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 333 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
333 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
13.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 082238 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC033-082345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
536 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...COMANCHE COUNTY
 
AT 535 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ASHLAND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL
REACH BUTTERMILK BY 600 PM AND COLDWATER BY 610 PM. HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ,AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
PARKIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt56 min
Jun 7, 10:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Rush67 min
Jun 7, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney59 min
Jun 7, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman61 min
Jun 8, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush40 min
Jun 8, 3:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford21 min
Jun 8, 3:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee25 min
Jun 8, 3:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego52 min
Jun 8, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford66 min
Jun 8, 5:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa, Pratt32 min
Jun 8, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark59 min
Jun 8, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa, Pratt64 min
Jun 8, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber43 min
Jun 8, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.