Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Burdett, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 222105 TORDDC KSC145-222145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 404 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY AT 400 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF BURDETT MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR$. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR BURDETT BY 430 PM CDT. TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER FROM THIS STORM!!! DON'T WAIT AND WATCH!!! TAKE COVER NOW!!! 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, 3:39 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, 4:41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.