Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 3, 1995, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)

Expired

Jul 3, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT

In force

25 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Stanton County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
350 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...EASTERN STANTON COUNTY
 
AT 345 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF
JOHNSON NEAR BIG BOW MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
THIS STORM SHOULD PASS HIGHWAY 160 NEAR BIG BOW BY400 PM CDT.  THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER ALONG WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
GERARD

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 3:50 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
350 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995

TSTMS STRTG TO FIRE OVER NWRN KS AND SERN CO.  ADAP COMPOSITE SHOWING
SFC BASE LI`S TO -11 OVER SWRN KS.  MOCON AXIS IS ALONG KS/CO BORDER AND
STGST LOW LVL THTA ADVN BULLSEYE OVER OK PHNDL SOUTH OF EHA.  TSTMS SHULD
CONT TO DVLP IN THIS AREA.  PROFILERS SHOWING SRLY WINDS INCRG IN DEPTH
AT HVL.  PROF HODOGRAPH INDCTNG HELICITY VALUES HAVE SETTLED DWN TO
AOB 50 M2S2 WITH BETTER VALUES FURTHER EAST.  CNSDRG INSTAB WILL NEED TO
MENTN POSS SVR STRMS IN EVE.  CLD FNT TO MOVE INTO AREA LATER TNGT AND
THRU AREA ON TUE.  COOLER AIRMSS BEHIND FNT COMBD WITH WRAPAROUND CLDS
AND PRECIP SHOULD KEEP TMPS DOWN INTO THE UPPER 70S OVER WRN PTNS AREA.

GERARD

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-040000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1105 AM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995

SYNOPSIS: A MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER SOUTHWEST
KANSAS.  A SURFACE TROF OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND
DODGE CITY WILL ACT AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
THIS AFTERNOON.  THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS.  THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF
TORNADOES.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THESE WILL BE MOVING EAST INTO THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER OF KANSAS THIS EV,ENING.  THESE STORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO BE
STRONG TO SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

GERARD

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

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.