Severe Thunderstorm Warning 323, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 14, 1996, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)

Expired

Jul 14, 1996, 2:25 AM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Comanche County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
123 AM CDT SUN JUL 14 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 225 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...COMANCHE COUNTY
 
AT 121 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING 7 MILES NORTH OF COLDWATER...SOUTHWARD
TO 16 MILES SOUTH OF COLDWATER...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF BUTTERMILK.
THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE...
WILMORE...BUTTERMILK...COLDWATER.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSrTORMS 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.

DS/SS

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 13, 3:40 PM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...SHORT TERM...
CNVCTN NOW ALG OK BORDER AREAS CONTS THIS EVE WHILE TSTMS NOW AALG LEE
SLOPES WORK EAST FOR LATER TNGT. MEANWHILE...CNVCTN OVR NEBR SHD
ACCELERATE FNT SWRD ACRS KS TNGT. MDLS AGN 2-4 MBS TOO WEAK ON COLD AIR
N OF THE FNT AND WITH CNVCTN N OF FNT WD XPCT IT TO PUSH THRU AHEAD OF
FWC TIMING. FNT WL BRING MORE CHCS FOR TSTMS THUS WL KEEP LIKELY POPS
ACRS FA TNGT AS AIRMASS RMNS UNSTABLE. GOING FCST LKS GOOD FOR OVRNGT
LOWS AND WL STICK WITH LWR 60S FOR LOWS. FOR NOW... NO MNTN OF SVR OR
LCLY HVY RAIN BUT WL HV TO WATCH THIS SITUATION DURING THE EVE.

...LONGER TERM...
MAIN CONCERN IS RW/TRW CHC BEHIND FNT SUNDAY. THINKING 20 POP RW/TRW
BEFORE NOON DUE TO PROXIMITY OF FNT TO THE SOUTH OF THE CWA...20
POP RW/TRW IN EVENING DUE TO PROXIMITY OF 50H TROUGH...SLIGHT PVA...
AND LINGERING INSTABILITY.

DDC 063/083 061/091 066 13622
GCK 062/083 060/091 066 13622
EHA 063/083 060/092 064 13622
LBL 064/083 060/092 064 13622
HYS 063/080 059/091 066 13622
P28 067/083 064/092 068 13622

CICCONE

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043-044-045-061-062-063-140600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1159 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

AS OF MIDNIGHT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES WILL NO LONGER BE IN THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 776...

ELLIS...TREGO...NESS...LANE...SCOTT...FINNEY...KEARNEY...AND HAMILTON

INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HAYS...WAKEENEY...NESS CITY...SCOTT CITY...
GARDEN CITY...AND SYRACUSE.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED OUT OF THE REGION.

KRUSE

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

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