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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 5, 1995Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kearny County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1675 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
1675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Aug 5, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
325 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 1995

ADAP FROM ERLY AFTN SHOWS LEE SIDE TROF OVER ERN CO CONNECTING UP WITH
SFC LOW WEST OF LBF.  AXIS OF BEST SFC PRES FALLS/THETA ADV HAS SHIFTED
INTO WRN KS WITH MOCON BULLSEYE ALONG THE KS/NEB BORDER NR LOW.
OF CONCERN FROM MRNG UA ANLYS WAS WRM H7 TMPS OVER SRN CO/NM.  THIS APPRS
TO BE CAPPING ACTIVITY SOMEWHAT IN ERN CO ATTM. GDA PROFLER SHOWS SOME
SLGT BACKING AHEAD OF VORT MAX BUT APPRS STGST PART OF VORT WILL BE MOVG
OVER NRN 1/2 OF KS.  WOULD LIKE TO RAISE POPS A BIT OVER NRN SCTNS OF CWA
WITH THIS IN MIND.  CURRENT FCST OF 30% REMAINDER OF THE AREA OK FOR NOW.
MODELS IN FRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THAT UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO CENT PLAINS
NEXT FEW DAYS.  XPCT TO SEE ANOTHR ROUND OF HOT TMPS WITH HIGH HEAT INDICES.
GNRLY WENT WITH MIX OF FWC/FAN TMPS.

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKearny43 min
Aug 5, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKearny40 min
Aug 5, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis47 min

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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.