Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 21, 1996, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)

Expired

Jun 21, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Trego County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KDDC 220343
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KSC195-220430-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1043 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...TREGO COUNTY
 
AT 1041 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED
FROM NEAR WAKEENEY SOUTHWARD TO NESS CITY.  THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH.  WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED OUT AHEAD THE LINE OF STORMS.

CLARK STATE LAKE...WAKEENEY...AND TREGO CENTER CAN EXPECT VERY HIGH
WINDS ALONG WITH SOME DIME SIZED HAIL BY 1105 PM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM.
 
WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

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, 6 hours 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.