Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Apr 27, 1996, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)

Expired

Apr 28, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT

In force

52 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Stafford County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 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 280423
SVRDDC
KSC185-280515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1123 PM CDT SAT APR 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...STAFFORD COUNTY
 
AT 1123 PM CDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 4
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MACKSVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL REACH MACKSVILLE BY 1125 AND DILLWYN
BY 1135 AND ST. JOHN BY 1145 PM. HAIL LARGER THAN GOLFBALLS...DAMAGING
WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING.
 
 
 
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NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 27, 3:20 PM CDT, 8 hours 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
320 PM CDT SAT APR 27 1996

MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS CHANCE OF PRECIP TIMING TONIGHT AND SUNDAY
AND EFFECT OF CAA ON HIGHS SUNDAY.

AFTER BEING IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THE LAST FEW CYCLES...THE MODELS
HAVE DECIDED THEY DON/T LIKE EACH OTHER.  NGM SEEMS MUCH TOO AMPLIFIED
WITH IT/S TROF OVER THE CENTRAL US.  AVN/ETA ARE MUCH MORE IN AGREEMENT
WITH UPPER FEATURES THROUGH TIME.  HAVE PRETTY MUCH FOLLOWED THE AVN
WITH IT/S COMPROMISE SOLN AND GENERALLY UNDERCUT TEMPS SOME ON SUNDAY
WITH CLOUDY SKIES AND STRONG CAA.

19Z SFC CHART SHOWED DEVELOPING SFC PRES AREA FROM WESTERN TX PAN INTO
EASTERN NM WITH A DEVELOPING WARM FRONT...AN OLD STATIONARY
FRONT...OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY.  COPIOUS QUANTITIES OF LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE TO THE SOUTH OF THIS DEVELOPING FRONT...60S AND 70S INTO
CENTRAL TX...HOWEVER IN GENERAL MOST WON/T MAKE IT TO MY CWA.

PER GRIDDED DATA X AND TIME SECTIONS...IT LOOKS LIKE BEST CHANCES FOR
RAIN...ALONG WITH SOME FOG PERHAPS WILL BE FROM 1 OR 2 AM INTO THE LATE
MORNING HOURS SUNDAY.  BEST PVA AND Q-VECT. CONV OVER AREA AT THAT
TIME.  AFTER THAT THOUGH...SOME NVA SETS IN WITH BEST LL MOISTURE
MOVING OFF THE TO EAST.  I DO THINK THOUGH THAT PLENTY OF UPPER LEVEL
LIFT ASSOC WITH RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER JET AND HIGH RH WILL
MAKE FOR CLOUDY SKIES AFTER PRECIP/FOG ENDS NOONISH.  WINDS TO BE
STRONG TOMORROW WITH THE STRONG PRESS GRAD OVER CENTRAL/SOUTHERN PLAINS.
BEST CHALLENGE WE/VE HAD IN A WHILE...WE/LL SEE HOW IT GOES.

DDC 043/053 032/058 040 442
GCK 042/055 032/059 039 432
EHA 045/056 033/059 041 321
LBL 045/055 033/058 042 332
HYS 042/049 030/055 036 553
P28 052/058 036/059 040 653

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.