Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 9:47 PM CDT for Barber 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, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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, 9:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Medicine Lodge, 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 240247 SVRDDC KSC007-240320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 947 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...BARBER COUNTY AT 943...A BROKEN LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 2 MILES WEST OF MEDICINE LODGE TO ISABEL. THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AT MEDICINE LODGE BY 950 PM AND NEAR SHARON BY 1010 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.. .DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. SEARCY/KRUSE
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, 8:02 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 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.