Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 7:48 PM CDT for Ford County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 23, 1996, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 8:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bucklin, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 240049 SVRDDC KSC057-097-240120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 748 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 820 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY AT 745 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF BUCKLIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE OVER OPEN FARMLAND 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUCKLIN BY 800 PM CDT. SPOTTERS REPORTED NICKEL SIZED HAIL WITH THIS STORM IN BUCKLIN AT 742 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD SEEK IMMEDIATE SAFE SHELTER UNTIL HTE STORM PASSES. JOHNSON/SEARCY &
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 23, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 330 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 ...THE FORECAST CHALLENGE THIS CYCLE IS TSTM CHANCES THROUGH TUE... AT 19Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED SFC LOW IN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Stevens | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.