Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1995, 9:24 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 1995, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 120225 RRA SVRDDC KSC033-120315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 924 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...COMANCHE COUNTY AT 924 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLDWATER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS TO 60 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD PASS NEAR COLDWATER BY 935 PM. PEOPLE IN COLDWATER SHOULD BE TAKING SHELTER FROM THIS STORM NOW! GERARD
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 Sep 11, 3:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 3:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 340 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995 FCST PRBLM TAFTN IS POPS AND OVNT TMPS. TRW FIRING ALNG AND EAST OF FNT RNG ATTM ALNG FIRST H5 SW. ADAP SHOWS MOIST AXIS OVER WRN KS WITH SMC SE-NW OVER CWA. SFC BASE LI OF -6 WITH NO CAP. TRW WILL LIKELY CONT DVLPG EWRD INTO WRN ZNS BY ERLY EVE AND CONT ACRSS CWA THRU NIGHT. SVR TRW LOOKS LIKE A GOOD POSS AT LEAST INTO EVE HRS. TRW MAY BE DELAYED FOR XTRM ERN CO`S UNTIL LATER TNGT. MODELS HAVE FRLY SIMLR SOLN OF MOVING STG VORT LOBE THRU CWA LATER TNGT AND EAST OF AREA BY TUE AFTN. RH FIELDS DRY ATMS OUT WITH TIME TNGT. WITH DRIER AIR WORKING IN AND NOT SO MUCH CLD CVR WILL GO WITH MIX OF FAN/FWC TMPS TNGT WRN ZNS AND CLSR OR ABV FWC FOR ERN ZNS. SOME CLDS OVER ERN ZNS TMRW MRNG AND POSS OF A FEW SHWRS LINGERING UNDER STG DNMX ALOFT BUT SHOULD CONT EWRD OUT OF AREA BY MIDDAY. GERARD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 9:01 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043-044-045-046-061-062-063-064-065-074-075-076-077- 078-079-084-085-086-087-120300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 900 PM CDT (758 PM MDT) MON SEP 11 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF WESTERN KANSAS AS OF 9PM CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #986 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTHWEST OF A LINFROM MEADE TO DODGE CITY...KINSLEY..AND LARNED. COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH AREA ARE...TREGO...ELLIS...SCOTT...LANE ...NESS...RUSH...HAMILTON...KEARNEY...FINNEY...HODGEMAN...PAWNEE... STANTON...GRANT...HASKELL...GRAY...FORD...EDWARDS...MORTON...STEVENS... SEWARD...AND MEADE COUNTIES WHICH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SCOTT CITY... WAKEENEY...HAYS...GARDEN CITY...ELKHART...LIBERAL...DODGE CITY...NESS CITY AND LARNED. KRUSE
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 9:02 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043-044-045-046-061-062-063-064-065-074-075-076-077- 078-079-084-085-086-087-120300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 900 PM CDT (758 PM MDT) MON SEP 11 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF WESTERN KANSAS AS OF 9PM CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #986 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM MEADE TO DODGE CITY...KINSLEY..AND LARNED. COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH AREA ARE...TREGO...ELLIS...SCOTT...LANE ...NESS...RUSH...HAMILTON...KEARNEY...FINNEY...HODGEMAN...PAWNEE... STANTON...GRANT...HASKELL...GRAY...FORD...EDWARDS...MORTON...STEVENS... SEWARD...AND MEADE COUNTIES WHICH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SCOTT CITY... WAKEENEY...HAYS...GARDEN CITY...ELKHART...LIBERAL...DODGE CITY...NESS CITY AND LARNED. KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Pawnee | 45 min |
| Sep 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 45 min |
| Sep 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 40 min |
| Sep 11, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 53 min |
| Sep 11, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 41 min |
| Sep 11, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 42 min |
| Sep 11, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.