Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 24, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)

Expired

Jun 24, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Gray County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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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TTAA00 KDDC 250000
SVRDDC
KSC069-250045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...GRAY COUNTY
 
AT 659 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY
DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTEZUMA MOVING NORTH
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 MONTEZUMA                        BY 710 PM CDT
 HAGGARD ELEVATOR                 BY 720 PM CDT
 ENSIGN                           BY 725 PM CDT
 
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.

MCAVOY/GERARD

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 3:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 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.