Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 50 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.