Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1995, 3:39 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1995, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 222041 TORDDC KSC151-222130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 339 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...PRATT COUNTY AT 338 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS 3 MILES SOUTHEAST CULLISON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL REACH THE PnRATT AREA BY 400 PM CDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM!! TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER!!! 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, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 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 |
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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.