Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 9:36 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 160236 SVRDDC KSC055-160315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 936 PM CDT MON MAY 15 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 SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...FINNEY COUNTY AT 935 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST THROUGH GARDEN CITY AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL REACH GARDEN CITY AIRPORT BY 945 PM CDT AND PIERCEVILLE BY 950 PM CDT. THIS STORM PRODUCED TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL AT 910 PM JUST NORTH OF DEERFIELD AS REPORTED BY SPOTTERS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM IN CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY YOU SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR OTHER SAFE STRUCTURE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. 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 May 15, 3:19 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:19 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS...COR TO P28/S TEMP PROG... 318 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1995 MAIN PROBLEM IS CHANCES OF TRW AND THEIR TIMING. AS HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED IN NORTHERN MO CONTINUING DRIFING EASTWARD... THE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE SOUTHERLY THIS EVENING. A WARM FRONT FROM NR EHA SOUTH TO JUST EAST OF AMA AND THEN NORTHEAST ACROSS OK WILL CONTINUE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWARD TOWARDS THE KS/OK BORDER. ALTHOUGH TEMPS IN THE REGION NEAR EHA HAVE BROKEN 80 DEGREES...THE REMAINDER OF DDC/S CWA IS MUCH COOLER THAN INITIALLY FORECAST THIS MORNING. AFTER MODIFYING DDC/S SOUNDING...WE FOUND THAT CONDITIONS WOULD BE FAVOURABLE FOR TRW WERE IT NOT FOR THE CAP AND QUASI-STEADY AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES. DDC/S VAD WINDS SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS AT THE SFC... THEN SOUTHWEST WINDS IN THE MIDDLE AND HIGHER LEVELS SUGGEST A STRENGTHENING TO THE CAP. A VORT MAX IS EXPECTED OVER SOUTHWEST PORTION OF DDC/S CWA LATE TONIZGHT. THUS...I SUSPECT THAT TRW IS STILL POSSIBLE BUT IT WON'T BE UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT AND PROBABLY CLOSER TO DAWN. SINCE THE MODELS //ESP. FWC// HAVE SHOWN A WARM TREND LATELY...HAVE GONE WITH LOWER TEMPS IN RECOMMENDATION. BELL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 15, 8:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-160600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 825 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1995 SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST OUT OF COLORADO HAS COLLIDED WITH WARM MOIST AIR BEING PUSHED NORTH BY THE LOW LEVEL JET INTO WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. A SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF LAKIN CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE NORTH SIDE OF GARDEN CITY. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED A TORNADO AND IS LIKELY TO LAST THROUGH 11 PM TO MIDNIGHT. TORRENTIAL RAINS MAY ALOS CAUSE SOME RURAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT IN KEARNY...FINNEY SCOTT AND LANE COUNTIES. OTHER COUNTIES MAY NEED SPOTTERS LATER TONIGHT. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 19 min |
| May 15, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 54 min |
| May 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 38 min |
| May 15, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 32 min |
| May 15, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 42 min |
| May 15, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 37 min |
| May 15, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 44 min |
| May 15, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 48 min |
| May 15, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| May 16, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 16, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 41 min |
| May 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 66 min |
| May 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 30 min |
| May 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 36 min |
| May 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.