Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 25, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1995, 7:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bucklin, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 252341 TORDDC KSC097-057-260030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 638 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING 2 MILES EAST OF BUCKLIN MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL PASS ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 54 TOWARD MULLINGVILLE BY 650 PM CDT. GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THIS STORM APPROACHES YOU. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET IN~TO A DITCH OR CULVERT. BELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 35 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.