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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 1996Edwards County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 8:02 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 8:35 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Edwards County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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, 8:05 PM CDT	Hail 1	Centerview, 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 240102
SVRDDC
KSC047-240135-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
802 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...EDWARDS COUNTY
 
AT 758 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF CENTERVIEW MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 5 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 CENTERVIEW                       BY 810 PM CDT
 
SPOTTERS REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL 1 MILE WEST OF CENTERVIEW AT
757 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS S>TORM. SEEK IMMEDIATE SAFE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR REINFORCED STRUCTURE.

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 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 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, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Kiowa	32 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

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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.