Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 22, 1995, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)

Expired

May 23, 1995, 12:10 AM CDT

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 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 230416
SVRDDC
KSC025-119-230515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1114 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY...NORTHERN MEADE COUNTY
 
AT 1113 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINNEOLA TO 16 MILES
WEST-NORTHWEST OF MEADE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
 
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NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 22, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
915 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1995

NOT MUCH TIME FOR DISCN.  CLD FNT APPRS TO BE FM S OF HLC TO NR GCK AND
INTO SWRN CORNER ST.  HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTND FROM NORTH OF GCK TO
NEAR STAFFORD PRODUCING FLOODING RAFL AND STILL SOME SVR WX.  FLASH FLOOD
WATCH SHUD CONT FROM THESE AREAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST TONGT.  BIGGEST
PRBLM APRS TO BE OVNT LOWS.  THINK WE NEED TO DROP LOWS TNGT AS TMPS OVER
NW KS/NERN COLO ARE INTO THE MID 40S AND GOOD NRLY WINDS SHOULD HELP ADVT
TMPS INTO CWA TNGT.  WILL KEEP MTN OF POPS WITH STG VORT MAX PUSHING OUT
OF SWRN US TNGT AND TUE.

GERARD

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043-044-045-046-062-063-064-065-075-076-077-079-085-
230500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1102 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1995

...TORNADO WATCH #459 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL
AND WESTERN KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

COUNTIES THAT ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE:

TREGO     ELLIS     SCOTT     LANE     NESS     RUSH     KEARNY     FINN
GRAY      HODGEMAN  PAWNEE    EDWARDS  GRANT    HASKELL  STEVENS

THERE IS A CONTINUED CHANCE FOR RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
AREA LATER TONIGHT.

GERARD

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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.