Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 7:48 AM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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 3, 1996, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1996, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:52 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 3, 7:55 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rush Center, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 031249 SVRDDC KSC165-031315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 748 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY AT 745 AM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF LACROSSE...OR JUST SOUTH OF RUSH CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF RUSH CENTER THROUGH 815 AM CDT. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY...SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS. LEE/REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 34 min |
| May 3, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 31 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.