Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 11, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)

Expired

Jun 12, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT

In force

68 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Meade County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 120353
SVRDDC
KSC119-120500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1052 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...MEADE COUNTY
 
AT 1051 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AREA OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN MEADE COUNTY...WITH THE LEADING EDGE FROM 8
MILES NORTHWEST OF MEADE TO 3 MILES NORTH OF MEADE STATE PARK.
 
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL REACH MEADE BY 1105 PM.
 
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH...GUSTY WINDS
AND HEAVY RAIN.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SYSTEM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
BURKE/NICHOLS

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 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

In the hours before

KSZ078-080-087-088-089-120715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1006 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1006 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ASHLAND...BUT NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED IN THE WATCH AREA.
THE MAIN THREAT OF ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT WILL BE IN
CLARK AND EASTERN MEADE COUNTIES. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS
DIMINISHED IN FORD...KIOWA...AND COMANCHE COUNTIES...AND SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 592 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 592 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM ONLY
FORD CLARK AND MEADE COUNTIES.

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.