Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 24, 1996, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)

Expired

Jun 24, 1996, 5:35 PM MDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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.

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.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
551 PM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM MDT (635 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN KEARNY COUNTY
 
AT 447 PM MDT (547 PM CDT)...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY
DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF KENDALL MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 KENDALL                          BY 505 PM MDT
 

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.

MCAHVOY/GERARD

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 2:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS PROBLEM OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES...

AT 18Z SFC CHART INDICATED STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN KS
WITH DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 60S OVER MOST OF THE STATE. NGM AND
ETA AGREE IN BRINGING ANOTHER S/W AROUND PERIPHERY OF UPPER HIGH
TNGT THROUGH NEBRASKA WITH GOOD THETA E RIDGE POKING THROUGH ALL
BUT EXTREME WESTERN COUNTIES. WENT 50 POP TRW NRN 4 COUNTIES...
CLOSEST TO FEATURE...40 TO 30 POP ELSEWHERE.

NGM AND ETA REMARKABLY SIMILAR WITH VORT FEATURES AT 50H BRING
WEAK S/W TOWARD SRN KS LATE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. FELT
20 TO 30 POP WARRENTED WITH FEATURE AS DEW POINTS WILL REMAIN
HIGH WITH POSSIBLE REMNANTS OF FNT.

KEPT LOW CHANCE TRW IN WED WITH DEW POINTS REMAINING VERY HIGH
AND SURFACE TROUGH.
FOLLOWED PERSISTENCE ON MINS AND NEAR GUIDANCE ON MAX TEMPS.

DDC  068/093 068/094 068 423
GCK  067/092 067/0^94 067 333
EHA  065/095 066/095 066 333
LBL  069/097 069/097 069 333
HYS  068/093 068/094 068 333
P28  072/097 072/097 072 323

CICCONE

In the hours before

KSZ031-046-065-066-079-080-081-089-090-220800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
158 PM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #680 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT HAS BEEN
CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

TREGO...NESS...HODGEMAN...PAWNEE...EDWARDS...STAFFORD...KIOWA...PRATT...
COMANCHE...BARBER.

GERARD

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.