Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 31, 1996, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)

Expired

May 31, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ness County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KDDC 312147
SVRDDC
KSC135-312230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
444 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NESS COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ARNOLD...12
MILES NORTHWEST OF NESS CITY...MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25
MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL APPROACH ARNOLD AROUND 455 PM AND WILL PASS OVER
OPEN COUNTRY BETWEEN RANSOM AND BROWNELL THROUGH 530 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE TO A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE ONTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
MCAVOY/01

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 31, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996

WILL KEEP THIS SHORT AS WATCH BOXES AND CONVECTION ARE STARTING TO
GO UP.

WEAK S/W IS EVIDENT ON WV THIS EVENING. CONVECTION IS BEGINING TO FIRE
WITH THIS FEATURE ALONG A DRY LINE/CONVERGENCE ZONE. CAPES ARE AROUND
3000 AND PRECIPITABLE WATER IS QUITE HIGH AS WELL. THIS LOOKS LIKE A BUSY
EVENING. XPT THE THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE EAST OF MOST OF THE CWA BY OR
SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. HAVE WORDED ZONES ACCORDINGLY.

THE NEXT TWO DAYS LOOK RATHER QUIET AS A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS
OK SATURDAY AND SAT NIGHT. WENT FAIRLY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE. THE ONLY
POTENTIAL PROBLEM IS RETURN FLOW ON SUNDAY...WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE
POSSIBLY RETURNING TO KICK OFF A FEW TRW IN THE SW PART OF THE CWA.
WILL LEAVE THAT FOR LATER SHIFT TO PONDER.

DDC BB 060/080 056/083 055 610
GCK BB 057/082 055/084 054 610
EHA BB 056/084 054/085 056 400
LBL BB 059/083 058/083 055 n610
HYS BB 058/079 055/081 053 610
P28 BB 063/082 059/084 056 610

MCAVOY

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-010000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1105 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996

SYNOPSIS: A SOUTHERLY FLOW OF MOIST AIR...COUPLED WITH A WEAK SURFACE
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE
SEVERE WITH A LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THERE IS THE THREAT FOR A FEW
ISOLATED TORNADOnES TO DEVELOP AS WELL.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

MCAVOY

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.