Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 7, 1995, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)

Expired

May 7, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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TTAA00 KDDC 071843
SVRDDC
KSC055-071930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
141 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...FINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 143 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
ALONG HIGHWAY 83 FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY TO THE FINNEY/HASKELL
COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. THIS LINE IS MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL APPROACH PIERCEVILLE AROUND 200
PM. DAMAGING WINDS...BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...AND HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH
IN DIAMETER MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
 
DAMAGING WINDS WERE REPORTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF
GARDEN CITY.
 
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.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 7, 10:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1040 AM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995

SVR WX OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING...SO WILL JUST WRITE A QUICK DISCUSSION.
RIGHT NOW...IT LOOK AS THROUGH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE
CWA FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. THE MODELS INDICATE THE DRY SLOT MOVING INTO
THE SW BY 00Z.

POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IN THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CWA AS 65 DEGREE
DEW POINTS FLITERING IN AHEAD OF THE MESO OUTFLOW. WILL HAVE TO WATCH
THIS AREA CAREFULLY. MAY ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER A WIND ADVISORY FOR
THE SW THIS AFTERNOON...AS WINDS FORECAST TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY
WITH THE DRY SLOT. TEMPS SHOULD RISE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AFTER
THE RAIN MOVES THROUGH.

PARKIN

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-080000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1100 AM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995

SYNOPSIS: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER MOST OF THE REGION
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED DURING THE
AFTERNOON.

PARKIN

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.