Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 4, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)

Expired

Jul 4, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Grant County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
416 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...GRANT COUNTY
 
AT 412 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ULYSSES MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM REACH ULYSSES BY
430 PM AND HICKOK BY 440 PM CDT. 3/4 INCH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG
WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE TO A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
GERARD

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 4, 11:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1100 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995

SBSDNC SHLD PREVAIL THIS AFTN WITH THE BIGGEST QUESTION BEING THE
MAX TEMP.  DOWNSLOPE WILL COUNTER THE WET AND GREEN CONDITIONS BUT
WITH FULL JULY SUN...SHOULD STILL EASILY MAX FCST MAX GIVEN MORNING
UA.  WL HAVE TO BRING WIND UP WITH MIXING OF LWR LVL TROP WIND.

HUTTON

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-050000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1110 AM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995

SYNOPSIS: A STRONG STORM SYSTEM FOR EARLY JULY WAS IN EASTERN COLORADO
THIS MORNING.  SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST
ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS AND SHOULD BE EAST OF DODGE CITY THIS AFTERNOON.
THE ATMOSPHERE IS MORE UNSTABLE OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS AND
THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY AROUND STAFFORD
...PRATT AND MEDICINE LODGE.

SPOTTERS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD STAY READY FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING
CALLE`D FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION 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.