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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 28, 1995Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 10:28 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1995, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1995, 10:44 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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 290326 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC067-290400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1028 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE
NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH ULYSSES BY 1040 PM CDT.
THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU ARE
IN ULYSSES OR CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER FROM THE
STORM.

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, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 9:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 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, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	29 min
Jun 28, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	33 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.