Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 1, 1995, 3:12 PM MDT (21:12 UTC)

Expired

Jul 1, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
412 PM CDT (312 PM MDT) SAT JUL 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT (400 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...HAMILTON COUNTY
 
AT 305 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COOLIDGE OR
15 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS
STORM WILL BE IN COOLIDGE BY 320 MDT AND IN SYRACUSE BY 350 PM.
 
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH DIAMETER ALONG WITH
EHEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS UP TO 50 MPH.
 
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.
 
GERARD

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 2:30 PM MDT, 42 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
325 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 1995

SAT LOOP SHOWS TRW ASSOCD WITH NEXT THRML TROF/SHRT WV MOVG THRU CENT
COLO THS AFTN.  THIS FEATURE TO BE MOVING OVER CWA THIS EVE AND TNGT.
ADAP SHORT FUSED COMPOSITE SHOWS GOOD MO CON AND THETA ADVTN OVER NRN P/H
SE COLO/SWRN KS RGN.  THIS POINTS TO TSTMS DVLPG THAT AREA.  MODIFIED
12Z DDC SOUNDING WITH FCST TMP/DWPS FRM MRNG UA ANLYS SHOWS SOME DESTABLZN
BUT NOT TOO SERIOUS.  TSTMS FIRING OVER ERN COLO IN AREA OF STGR HEATING.
FEEL THESE WILL BE STG/SVR FOR A WHILE BFOR SETTLING DOWN SOME AS THEY MOVE
INTO COOLER AIRMASS.  NGM MO CON FCST AND THKNSS PTTN WOULD ALSO SUGG THAT
MCC DVLPMT WOULD MOVE TOWRD THE SE INTO OK/TX...FURTHER SOUTH THAN 94Q
POSN.  ETA GRIDDED FCST DATA SHOWS GOOD SUBSIDNC MOVG INTO FCST AREA
TMRW AFTN WHICH SHOULD CUT BACK TSTM CHCS BY THEN.

GERARD

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-020000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1105 AM CDT FRI JUN 30 1995

SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH DEVELOPING LOW
PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE TO KICK OFF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST
COLORADO AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON.  THE BEST CHANCE FOR
AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WEST OF LIBERAL AND GARDEN CITY WITH
THUNDERSTzORMS MOVING FURTHER EAST TONIGHT.  SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

GERARD

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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