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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 2, 1996Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 6:58 AM CDT for Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1996, 6:58 AM CDT (11:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1996, 7:45 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 1996-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 164 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 1996-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
164 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 2, 3:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
315 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

FORECAST CHALLENGE TODAY IS ONGOING WEAK CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY MOVING
INTO/THRU CWA ATTM.  MAY ALSO SEE SOME REDEVELOP THIS PM AS HAPPENED
SATURDAY...BUT WON/T MENTION IN PUBLIC PRODUCT ATTM.  CONFIDENCE STILL
LOW.

IN THE SHORT TERM...IT LOOKS AS THOUGH I/M GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP A
SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE ZONE PACKAGE FOR SOME SHOWER ACTIVITY THAT
CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA IN ADVANCE OF A WEAK TROF EMBEDDED
IN THE NW FLOW THAT IS AGAIN SHOWING UP OVER THE WESTERN CONUS.  WILL
WORD THE PACKAGE AS TO THE FACT THAT THE ACTIVITY SHOULD END EARLY AS
HAPPENED SATURDAY MORNING.  THIS ACTIVITY REMAINS ELEVATED AND DID
PRODUCE SOME NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN KEARNY COUNTY AROUND 1 AM.

LOOKING OUT A LITTLE LONGER...IT LOOKS AS THOUGH ANOTHER NICE DAY IS IN
STORE FOR THE REGION.  MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND LIGHT NORTH WINDS TO RULE
TODAY...ALTHOUGH COULD SEE SOME PESKY CONVECTION AGAIN POP UP THIS PM.
HAVE PUT IN CCF BUT NOT PUBLIC PACKAGE FOR NOW.  THX TO GLD AND AMA FOR
COORDINATION ON THIS.

LATER PERIODS TO REMAIN FAIRLY CALM...WITH SOME UVV/S SHOWING UP IN THE
30-48 HOUR TIME FRAME OVER CWA...HOWEVER MOISTURE TO BE LIMITED SO
WITHOUT ANY STRONG FORCING...WILL CONT WITH DRY FCST.  NGM/AVN SEEM TO
HAVE INIT THE BEST SO HAVE GENERALLY FOLLOWED.  FOR TEMPS...DIDN/T BUY
INTO FWC COOLING OF TEMPS ON MONDAY SO HAVE FOLLOWED FAN IN LATER
PERIODS.B

DDC UU 080/051 082/053 083 1-0
GCK UU 081/050 083/052 083 1-0
EHA UU 082/050 084/052 084 1-0
LBL UU 081/051 083/053 083 1-0
HYS UU 078/050 078/051 082 1-0
P28 UU 083/054 084/055 085 1-0

SEARCY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray35 min
Jun 1, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney31 min
Jun 1, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Haskell45 min
Jun 2, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny32 min
Jun 2, 5:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny46 min
Jun 2, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney47 min
Jun 2, 6:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman50 min

Nearby

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.