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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 5, 1995Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2596 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
12.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 060117
TORDDC
KSC055-060200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
815 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 815 PM CDT...LOCAL SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF
HOLCOMB OR 7 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS TORNADO SHOULD MOVE SLOWLY
TO THE SOUTHEAST PASSING JUST SOUTH OF HOLCOMB BY 825 PM CDT. PERSONS
NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
 
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 INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
NICHOLS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego51 min
Aug 5, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney61 min
Aug 5, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny35 min
Aug 5, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell60 min
Aug 5, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford54 min
Aug 5, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray42 min
Aug 5, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards48 min
Aug 5, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord43 min
Aug 5, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark39 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.