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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 28, 1995Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 10:01 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1995, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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 
TTAA00 KDDC 290259 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC129-290345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1001 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...MORTON COUNTY
 
AT 958 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTHERN MORTON COUNTY RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER ROLLA AND 11 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ELKHART OVER THE CIMARRON NATIONAL GRASSLANDS. THESE STORMS
WERE LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN ADDrITION TO VERY
HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THEY WILL REACH RICHFIELD BY 1010 PM
CDT.
 
YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER FROM THESE STORMS IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR
OTHER SAFE STRUCTURE.

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 28, 9:18 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 9:18 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
916 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

SFC PRS ANAL SHOWS HIGH OVER MONTANA STRONGER BY 3 MB OR AROUND 30
METERS THAN NGM PROG...AND ETA IS MUCH CLOSER WHICH IS EXPECTED WITH
BETTER LOW LVL RESOLUTION. SECONDARY COLD FRONT STILL BACK IN WRN NB
ATTM WITH TEMPS IN 60S AND THIS MAIN COLD PUSH SHLD PUSH INTO NWRN
KS BY 12Z AND NEAR DDC BY THURS AFTN. MEANWHILE FIRST TROF/COOL FRONT
HAS PUSHED INTO THE KS/OK BORDER WITH ADAP SHOWG NICE BAND OF SFC MSTR
FLUX CONVERGENCE ALONG IT IN AN ARC FROM NEAR EHA INTO SERN CO. BAND
OF TSTRMS HAS SHIFTED SOUTH OF CWA INTO OK...HOWEVER WEAK VORT WITH
CNVCTN OVER ERN CO WILL PUSH INTO WRN KS BY 10-11 PM AND THEN FROM
GCK TO DDC WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT. HAVE LOWERED MINS AS TEMPS TO FALL
TO WET BULB IN TSTRMS LATER TNGT TO UPR 50S.

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	33 min
Jun 28, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	33 min
Jun 28, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	16 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.