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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 28, 1995Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1995, 9:05 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 28, 1995, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 290207
SVRDDC
KSC055-290245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
905 PM CDT THU SEP 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...FINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 905 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM
WILL REACH GARDEN CITY BY 910 PM CDT AND MOVE ON NORTHEAST OVER OPEN
FARMLAND IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST FINNEY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY
SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  IN ADDITION...A TORNADO WATCH IS
IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARN^ING.
 
JOHNSON

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 28, 4:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 4:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
420 PM CDT THU SEP 28 1995

MAIN FCST PRBM TNGT IS POPS AND TMPS.  SAT LOOPS SHOW MASS OF CLDS/TRW
MOVING ENE THRU NM TAFTN.  MIDDAY SFC ANLYS SHOWS SFC LOW VCNTY DHT
WITH WRM FNT EXTNDG EAST ACRSS OK.  GOOD MOIST TONGUE XTNDG NORTH THRU
TX/OK.  SOME CLRG OCCURG OVER SWRN KS AS LOW ST DECK ERODED MUCH FASTER
THAN YDA.  WOULD EXPCT PRECIP TO BEGIN IN CWA THIS EVE BASED ON EXTRAP
SAT MOVMT.  THIS SUPPORTD BY NGM WHICH TAKES VORT MAX FROM CENT NM THS
AFTN THRU MOST OF CWA BY 12Z.  LOW CLDS/FOG MAY NOT BE AS MUCH PRBLM
TNGT OR AT LEAST WOULD BE HELD TO EASTERN PTNS CWA AS UPPER SYS APPRS
STG ENUF TO PUSH SFC TROF FURTHER EAST.  24 HR NGM/ETA WOULD HAVE IT
AROUND GCK/DDC.  IN THS CONTEXT...WOULD EXPECT A LITTLE MORE SS ESP OVER
WRN SCTNS WHICH WOULD ENHANCE CONVTV POTNTL AS NEXT SYS APPCHS FRI AFTN.

DDC 060/082/053/070/047 542   GCK 059/084/053/069/045 424
LBL 060/085/054/070/046 524   EHA 055/085/054/070/044 324
HYS 063/082/059/070/045 524   P28 063/082/056/076/050 524
GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	26 min
Sep 28, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	34 min
Sep 28, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	40 min
Sep 28, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	37 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.