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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1995, 6:44 PM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 16, 1995, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Charleston, KS | The Tornado barely crossed into Gray County. |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 162345 TORDDC KSC055-069-170030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 644 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 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 SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN FINNEY COUNTY...NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY AT 642 PM CDT...A TORNADOE WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 3 MILES NORTWEST OF PIERCEVILLE AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM WILL MOVE OVER MOSTLY OPEN FARM LAND NORTH OF PIERCEVILLE AND WILL BE NEAR HIGHWAY 156 AND HIGHWAY 23 BY 715 PM CDT. 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. BELtL &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 19 min |
| May 15, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 54 min |
| May 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 38 min |
| May 15, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 32 min |
| May 15, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 42 min |
| May 15, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 37 min |
| May 15, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 44 min |
| May 15, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 48 min |
| May 15, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| May 16, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 16, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 41 min |
| May 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 66 min |
| May 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 30 min |
| May 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.