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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 2, 1995Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 11:19 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1995, 11:19 PM MDT (05:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1995, 11:35 PM MDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1289 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 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
1289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Jul 2, 8:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 8:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
900 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995

SVR WX HAS MOVD OUT OF EXTRM SWERN KS ATTM... OTHER TSTRMS IN
ERN CO MOVG EAST AND NOT AS IMPRESSIVE REFLECTIVITY WISE. CURRENT
FCST FOR EXTRM SW KS ON TRACK. ERN PART OF CWA IN GR 6 SHLD HAVE
TSTRMS AFTR MIDNIGHT. HIGHER CAPE STILL PRODUCING SOME WEAK TORNADOS
IN SPITE OF LESS SPEED AND DIR SHEAR THAN LAST NIGHT. TRF LN/DRY LN
TRIES TO MOV ERWD TNGT AND BE NEAR GCK BY 12Z MONDAY AND H85 WEST
WINDS TO PUSH DRY LINE THRU CWA DURG DAY. DRY LINE MAY BE A FOCUS FOR
MORE CNVTN TMRW WHEREVER IT ENDS UP.

KRUSE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DODGE CITY KS
905 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    14SW ULYSSES              KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    GRANT

0605 PM    6W HUGOTON                KS   TORNADO
07/2/95    STEVENS                        TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE

0615 PM    12NW HUGOTON              KS   1.25 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS

0558 PM    12NW HUGOTON              KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS
0624 PM    HUGOTON                   KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS

0625 PM    2W HUGOTON                KS   1.25 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS

0717 PM    10W LIBERAL               KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS

0723 PM    12NW HUGOTON              KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS                        COVERING THE GROUND

0720 PM    12S 11E JOHNSON           KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STANTON

0720 PM    8E 2N RICHFIELD           KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    MORTON

0742 PM    10W HUGOTON               KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    MORTON/STEVENS LINE

0805 PM    FETERITA                  KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS

0808 PM    1S FETERITA               KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/2/95    STEVENS

PARKIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens56 min
Jul 2, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton49 min
Jul 2, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton28 min
Jul 2, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens45 min
Jul 2, 10:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton44 min
Jul 3, 2:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton25 min
Jul 3, 3:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton51 min
Jul 3, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton32 min
Jul 3, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney30 min
Jul 3, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott40 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.