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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 1, 1996Ness County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 1, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Ness County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 1, 5:37 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Ness City, KS
Jun 1, 5:38 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Ness City, KS
Jun 1, 5:43 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Ness City, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 1, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 1996

FORECAST CHALLENGE NEXT TWO DAYS IS THE EXTENT TO WHICH AIRMASS OVER
WESTERN KANSAS MODIFIES.

RATHER CHILLY H5 TEMPS...LEFTOVER SURFACE MOISTURE AND A VERY WEAK S/W
MAY MEAN AN EVENING RW/TRW IN THE FAR WESTERN PART OF THE CWA. AND WITH
THIS LITTLE BIT OF CONVECTION...IT MAY BE A WHILE TILL WE SEE ANY MORE
AS A STRONG RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE WEST COAST...KEEPING US IN A DRY NWRLY
FLOW WHERE THE ONLY EXCITEMENT MAY BE CIRRUS.

SIDED WITH THE AVN MOS FOR TONIGHT AS GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING AND
WEAK ADVECTION OF LOWER TD/S SHOULD BE GOOD FOR UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S
MOST AREAS.

DDC  051/079 052/081 053 :000
GCK  049/081 051/082 053 200
EHA  050/082 052/053 055 200
LBL  051/081 052/052 053 000
HYS  047/077 049/079 050 000
P28  054/082 053/084 054 000

MCAVOY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade	69 min
May 31, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	69 min
May 31, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	52 min
May 31, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	48 min
May 31, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	60 min
May 31, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	51 min
May 31, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	52 min
May 31, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	45 min
May 31, 8:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	3 hr
May 31, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	47 min
May 31, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	59 min
May 31, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	45 min
May 31, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	53 min
May 31, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	45 min
May 31, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	53 min
May 31, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	42 min
May 31, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	35 min
Jun 1, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.