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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 7, 1996Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 7, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Jul 7, 7:06 PM CDT	Hail 1	Dighton, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 080001
SVRDDC
KSC101-080045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
700 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 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 WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...LANE COUNTY
 
AT 658 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS OVER DIGHTON. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT DIGHTON AND OPEN COUNTRY OVER
MUCH OF LANE COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM CDT.

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IN AND NEAR DIGHTON.
 
SEVERE THUNDE~RSTORMS 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.

&
STOUT/REITER

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 Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

KSZ030-031-043>046-062>065-077>080-080500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
607 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 739 FOR PARTS OF WEST KANSAS
   UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 739 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING WEST
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS COUNTIES...

ELLIS...TREGO...SCOTT...LANE...NESS...RUSH...KEARNY...FINNEY...HODGEMAN
PAWNEE...EDWARDS...GRAY...FORD...KIOWA

INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE THE FOLLOWING CITIES...

WAKEENEY...HAYS...SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...LA CROSSE...
LAKIN...GARDEN CITY...CIMARRON...DODGE CITY...JETMORE...LARNED...
KINSLEY...KIOWA
.
JOHNSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	48 min
Jul 7, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	32 min
Jul 7, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	47 min
Jul 7, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	42 min
Jul 7, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	48 min
Jul 7, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	50 min
Jul 7, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	48 min
Jul 7, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	30 min
Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	45 min
Jul 7, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	49 min
Jul 7, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	49 min
Jul 7, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell	47 min
Jul 7, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	62 min
Jul 7, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell	32 min

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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.