Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 6:37 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1996, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Manter, KS | |
| Jun 22, 6:52 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Johnson, KS | |
| Jun 22, 6:58 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Johnson, KS |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 4:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 4:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 405 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1996 ...FCST CHALLENGE TODAY IS CHANCES OF PCPN... PREFER RAFS MODEL THIS PERIOD BASED ON VERIFYING THE BEST FIRST 6 HOURS (18Z) WITH SURFACE PRESSURE AND FASTER MOVEMENT OF S/W INTO UTAH BY 00Z SUN. IN ANY EVENT BEST CHANCE OF TRW TONIGHT APPEARS TO BE IN WRN AND NRN CWA COUNTIES IN ASSOCIATION WITH S/W MOVING JUST NORTH OF STATIONARY BOUNDARY IN NRN KANSAS. 20 TO 30 POP IN ORDER ON SUNDAY AS SFC TROUGH WILL BE MOVING THROUGH COUNTIES WITH RAFS SHOWING FAIRLY HIGH THETA E AIR. COLD FNT APPROACHES NRN CWA COUNTIES SUNDAY NIGHT...SO WENT 30 POP THERE...20 ELSEWHERE. ON MONDAY HEIGHTS ACTUALLY RISE AND FRONT HAS TROUBLE MAKING SOUTHWARD PROGRESS. RAFS INDICATING SFC TROUGH KS/COLO BORDER BY EVENING. WENT 30 POP TRW NRN AND WRN CWA COUNTIES MONDAY. LEFT OUT ANY POP FOR MEDICINE LODGE ALL PERIODS AS THEY APPEAR FURTHEST REMOVED FROM TRIGGERS. FOLLOWED PERSISTENCE ON TEMPS THROUGH PERIOD. DDC 067/096 065/095 067 232 GCK 067/096 065/095 067 232 EHA 065/097 063/095 065 222 LBL 068/097 066/095 068 232 HYS 067/090 063/090 067 333 P28 071/099 069/097 071 -0- CICCONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 62 min |
Nearby
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Sources
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.