Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Dodge City, KS
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 67 min |
| Jun 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 21 min |
| Jun 8, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 3:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 45 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.