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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 22, 1996Stanton County, Kansas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 6:40 PM CDTHail 0.75Manter, KS
Jun 22, 6:52 PM CDTHail 1Johnson, KS
Jun 22, 6:58 PM CDTHail 0.75Johnson, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton50 min
Jun 21, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton45 min
Jun 21, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 min
Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell49 min
Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny44 min
Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant50 min
Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney60 min
Jun 21, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott28 min
Jun 21, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton50 min
Jun 21, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny64 min
Jun 21, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell48 min
Jun 21, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray64 min
Jun 21, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray50 min
Jun 21, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord60 min
Jun 21, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Lane, Ness63 min
Jun 21, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney50 min
Jun 21, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray45 min
Jun 21, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee56 min
Jun 21, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton49 min
Jun 21, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego47 min
Jun 21, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush62 min
Jun 21, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness45 min
Jun 21, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee47 min
Jun 21, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego64 min
Jun 21, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton46 min
Jun 22, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush55 min
Jun 22, 12:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny48 min
Jun 22, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton47 min
Jun 22, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton47 min
Jun 22, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton62 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.