Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 7, 1996, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)

Expired

Jul 7, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Lane County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
613 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...LANE COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 96 FROM AMY TO DIGHTON. THE STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST PART OF THE
STORM WILL MOVE INTO DIGHTON AND AMY BY 630 PM CDT AND WILL BRING
HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM IN DIGHTON OR AMY YOU
SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFE SHELTER AND WAIT THERE UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.  STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

JOHNSON/REITER

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
335 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996

...CHALLENGES THIS AFTERNOON ARE PRECIP CHANCES/SVR AND TEMPS...

SHORT TERM...AT 20Z OLD SFC BNDRY HANGING AROUND NORTHERN OKLA AND
NORTHERN TX PAN. SOME CONV FIRING IN NW OKLA ATTM.  FARTHER NORTH...OVER
CWA...NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES SHOWING UP ON THE 88-D IMAGERY.  MODIFIED
SOUNDINGS FROM 12Z INDICATE MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOS OVER REGION ATTM.
SPC OUTLOOK HAS SLIGHT RISK OVER AREA...AND 12Z UPPER AIR HAS S/W
MOVING INTO REGION FROM CENTRAL ROCKIES.  ALL THIS SAID...WOULD EXPECT
CONVECTION TO FIRE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE OVER CWA SHORTLY.  A LITTLE
LATER...COULD GET SOME ORGANIZED CONVECTION OVER NORTHERN AND
NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA...PER SWODY1...HENCE THE HIGHER POPS THIS
EVENING AND TONIGHT UP THERE.

LONGER TERM...ONLY NGM TO LOOK AT TODAY...AND IT WAS FAIRLY LATE.  SOME
ETA PRODUCTS JUST NOW...2025Z...BEGINNING TO COME IN.  SO HAVE
GENERALLY FOLLOWED NGM AND WINGED IT.  A SECONDARY FRONT CURRENTLY
TAKING SHAPE IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS WILL COME THROUGH HERE MID TO LATE
AM ON MONDAY...SWITCHING WINDS FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTH OR NORTHEAST. IF
THEY GO NORTHEAST...WILL SEE MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIP.  ANYWAY...UPSLOPE
FLOW AND DECENT AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE THROUGH THE COLUMN CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS SETUP.  PARTLY/MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES SHOULD BE COMMONPLACE
THROUGHOUT PERIOD WITH UPSLOPE AND FRONT IN REGION.  CLOUDS AND
NORTHEASTERLY BREEZES TO TEMPER JULY SUN ON MONDAY SO HAVE WENT BELOW
NORMAL.  WE/LL SEE HOW IT GOES.

DDC 070/090 061/087 066 443
GCK 068/088 060/086 064 444
EHA 069/088 059/087 062 445
LBL 070/089 060/087 063 445
HYS 067/086 058/085 059 543
P28 074/091 066/087 0P65 444

SEARCY

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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.