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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 1995Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 9:25 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 9:25 PM MDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 620 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
620 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KDDC 240326 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC075-187-240415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1025 PM CDT (925 PM MDT) FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT (1015 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY...NORTHERN STANTON COUNTY
 
AT 1020 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM 30 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE TO 35 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON
MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE BIGGEST THREAT OF THESE STORMS WILL
BE GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS AND
SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF SYRACUSE AND
IN JOHNSON BY 11 PM CDT.
 
 
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.
 
CJ

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 Jun 23, 8:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 8:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
910 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995

NUMBER OF THINGS GETTING CNVTN GOING ERN CO TNGT.  AREA HAS BEEN FAIRLY
CLD FREE TDY HELPING OUT WITH AFTN HEATING.  S/W APPCHG FRM WEST EVDNT
ON WV IMGRY.  PROFILERS SHOWING ERLY UPSLOPE FLOW IN ERN CO/WRN KS.
00Z DDC SOUNDING SHOWS DECENT INSTAB WITH LI OF -8.  STRMS SHOULD
MAKE THEIR WAY INTO WRN PTNS CWA THIS EVE BUT MAY SEE SOME DEC IN ACTIVITY
AFTER SUNSET ESP AS STRMS GET FURTHER EAST INTO COOLER AIR.  WOULD ALSO
EXPECT SOME GNRL PROPAGATION TO THE SOUTH OF AREA INTO PANHANDLE AREAS
SFC FRONT IS AND LOW PRESSURE ONVER ERN NM IS PULLING HIER DWPT AIR INTO
THAT AREA.  FOR NOW WILL JUST GO WITH INC IN POPS WRN HALF AND LEAVE EAST
ALONE FOR NOW.

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every 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.