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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 1995Grant County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT for Grant County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 1995-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 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 071816
SVRDDC
KSC067-081-071900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
115 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY...HASKELL COUNTY
 
AT 115 PM CDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDED FROM 7
MILES WEST OF RYUS TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SATANTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL. THE STORM WILL APPROACH SATANTA AROUND 130 PM AND WILL PASS
OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 56 AFTER 130 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 5:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
May 7, 5:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade42 min
May 7, 5:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Hodgeman34 min
May 7, 5:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa34 min
May 7, 6:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade36 min
May 7, 6:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord46 min
May 7, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards26 min
May 7, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford28 min
May 7, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Stevens53 min
May 7, 9:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford18 min
May 7, 11:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward54 min
May 7, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens42 min
May 7, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward52 min
May 7, 1:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney49 min
May 7, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray44 min
May 7, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.