Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Aug 5, 1995, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)

Expired

Aug 5, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
729 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST
OF GARDEN CITY MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HOLCOMB BY 8 PM CDT AND NEAR
GARDEN CITY BY 815 PM. EXPECT HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE.
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO
ADVANCED WARNING.
 
KRUSE

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 5, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.