Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 11, 1996, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)

Expired

Jun 11, 1996, 9:50 PM CDT

In force

22 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 120229
SVRDDC
KSC057-120300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
928 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY
 
AT 928 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDING FROM
2 MILES EAST OF BLOOM TO 3 MILES SOUTH OF BUCKLIN MOVING TOWARD THE
SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE
SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS IT PASSES OVER OPEN COUNTRY
NEAR THE CLARK COUNTY LINE.
 
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE CIRCULATION IN THE STORM IN EXTREME
SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY HAD DECREASED...AND THE TORNADO WARNING VALID
UNTIL 930 PM FOR SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HAIL UP
TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS OCCURRED WITH THIS STORM 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF
KINGSDOWN AT 922 PM.
 
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
O~R BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY...SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO
WATER-COVERED ROADS.
 
 
 
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NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
359 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996

PREFERRED TO USE THE NGM MODEL SINCE NGM USUALLY HANDLES MONSOONAL
MOISTURE RETURN BETTER (W GULF NWD TO W SIDE OF ROCKIES/UPR HI PRES).
BUT, SINCE NCEP HAD SUCH TROUBLE GENERATING NGM GRAPHICS...FCST SWAYED
BY ETA/AVN COMPROMISE.  AVN SEEMS TO DO BEST BEST SFC FEATURES THIS
PACKAGE...MOVING SFC TROF E TO ABT DDC BY 12/00Z.  MINOR PVA CNTRS
SWIRLING OUT AND ACRS TOP OF STRG HI PRES RDG/DOME OVER E COLORADO.
LIKE NGM FOR TIMING OF VORT MAXS CROSSING CWA.  SO WENT WITH CHC CAT
DURING NT PDS AND SLGT CHC IN DAY.

WATCH NEEDED FOR E TWO TIERS OF COUNTIES EARLY THIS EVENING WHERE MOISTR
CONVERGING ALONG VRY WEAK DRYLINE (60S VS 50S DWPTS).  LIGHT S FLOW HAS
PERSISTED THERE ALL DAY...ADVECTING MOISTR N FROM OK.  ANOTHER SVR
WATCH MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING W OF CURRENT WATCH.

DDC 063/092 062/094 061 232
GCK 063/093 062/095 061 323
EHA 063/094 063/095 062 323
LBL 062/094 063/094 062 323
HYS 062/089 060/090 058 332
P28 064/092 062/092 060 332

BURKE

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.