Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 21, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)

Expired

Jun 21, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT

In force

64 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Gray County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 220216
SVRDDC
KSC069-220320-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
916 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...GRAY COUNTY
 
AT 913 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM PIERCEVILLE TO COPELAND.  THIS LINE HAD INCREASED IN SPEED AND
WAS NOW MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WINDS OF 80
MPH WIND GUSTS IN THE GARDEN CITY AREA AROUND 9 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER NOW!
 
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 OR BUSINESS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM.

SEARCY/STOUT

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 21, 3:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
255 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1996

FORECAST CHALLENGE IS TRW CHANCE TNGHT IN N AND TOMORROW NIGHT AND
SUNDAY IN NW.

CONVECTION IN COLORADO AT 20Z IN ASSOCIATION WITH S/W AROUND
PERIPHERY OF UPPER HIGH WILL PROBABLY SHIFT SLIGHTLY S OF E
INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND MAY CLIP OUR NORTHERNMOST CWA
COUNTIES TNGT. FWC POP AT RSL IS 30 AND ETA AVN GRIDDED DATA DO
INDICATE SLIGHTLY COOLER 70H TEMPS AND HIGHER THETA E THAT AREA.
WENT WITH SLIGHT CHC N TNGT.

KEPT 20 POP TRW SATURDAY IN SAME AREA FOR SIMILAR REASONING AND
STATIONARY FRONT MAY DRIFT FARTHER S INTO NRN KANSAS DUE TO
TONIGHTS CONVECTION.
                                                                               DDECIDED TO PUT 20 POP SAT NGHT NW COUNTIES DUE TO MODELS INDICATING
SOME EROSION OF UPPER HIGH AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS ALOFT.
LEFT OUT POP ON SUNDAY AS AVN INDICATING SOME STRENGTHENING AGAIN
OF UPPER HIGH AND FWC POPS SO LOW.

WENT LOWER TNGT ON MINS THEN LAST NIGHT DUE TO LOWER DEW POINTS
AND PROBABLY LESS WIND. WENT WITH PERSISTENCE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

DDC 068/097 072/097 070 000
GCK 067/099 072/099 069 001
EHA 066/101 069/101 068 001
LB6L 068/098 072/098 070 00-
HYS 070/098 073/098 072 222
P28 072/102 073/101 073 000

CICCONE

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.