Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 3:24 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1995, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 222025 SVRDDC KSC195-222115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 324 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...TREGO COUNTY AT 323 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF WAKEENEY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD BE IN COLLYER BY 326 PM AND VODA BY 331 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE LIKEY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES W4ITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD GET INDOORS AND TAKE COVER!
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 22, 11:22 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 11:22 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1120 AM CDT MON MAY 22 1995 QSTN TDY IS TIMING TSTMS FOR THIS AFTN. MSWIS AND PRFLRS 5M(A,V) HV STG VORT OVR NM WHICH SHD SWING INTO SW KS BY LATE AFTN JUST IN TIME TO MEET GREATEST INSTBLTY WITH CAPES ARND 3000 AND LI`S -6 TO -8. S/W SHD ALSO ALTER SHR PROFILE ENUF TO INCRG SRH INTO THE 200`S. BASED ON THIS...WD XPCT A LATE AFTN WATCH SOMEWHERE IN THE RGN AND WL THUS UP POPS A BIT AND WORD FOR LATE AFTN DVLPMT. NO DOUBT OF PCPN TNGT SO WENT CATEGORICAL. IN FACT...AS FNT COMES IN FM N TO MEET THE JUICE AND VORT MAX FROM THE SOUTHWEST...XPCT TRAIN ECHOING ALG THE FN FM ARND MEADE NE SO WL GO FFW THAT AREA FOR TNGT...FFW IN NRN ZN*S WITH THE FNT FOR THIS AFTN. TONIGHTS LOWS LOOK TOO COOL BASED ON AMNT OF MSTR IN AIR SO BUMPED UP. REST OF FCST OKAY ATTM. JOHNSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-230000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1113 AM CDT MON MAY 22 1995 SYNOPSIS: A LOW PESSURE SYSTEM OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST INTO WEST KANSAS TODAY AND WILL MEET UP WITH AN UPPER ATMOSPHERE DISTURBANCE MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF NEW MEXICO. THIS SYSTEM WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD SHWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STARTING LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND SPREADING NORTHEAST INTO KANSAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. INSTABILITY IN THE REGION REMAINS VERY HIGH BUT WIND PROFILES ARE NOT CONDUCIVE TO TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. THE AREA EAST OF A SCOTT CITY...GARDEN CITY AND LIBERAL LINE WILL SEE THE HEAVIEST RAINS THROUGH THE NIGHT AND FLASH FLOODING AS A STRONG POSSIBLITY IN THIS AREA. SPOTTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WILL BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT IN MOST AREAS. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 50 min |
| May 22, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane | 30 min |
| May 22, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 28 min |
| May 22, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 42 min |
| May 22, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 51 min |
| May 22, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 45 min |
| May 22, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 44 min |
| May 22, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 41 min |
| May 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 49 min |
| May 22, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 42 min |
| May 22, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 52 min |
| May 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 43 min |
| May 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 35 min |
| May 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 29 min |
| May 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 54 min |
| May 22, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 19 min |
| May 22, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 26 min |
| May 22, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 41 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.