Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 369, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1996, 11:41 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1996, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seward County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 23, 3:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 345 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 1996 SHORT... S/WV TRF ANALYZED IN WYOMING THIS AM (50H) INTERACTING WITH VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN E COLO AND W KS. TRW FIRED VERY...VERY RAPIDLY NORTH OF GLD THIS PM. THIS IS JUST THE START. MODELS SOMEWHAT (SUPRISINGLY) CONSISTENT WITH THIS S/WV (EXCPT AVN)...MVG IT ACRS THE CWA NXT 12/24 HRS. STRONG (AT LEAST FOR SUMMER) MID/UPR LVL WIND FIELD ABOVE INCREASING LOW LVL S/SE FLOW...ALONG WITH THE S/WV AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR TO ALLOW FOR SVR DEVELOPMENT...INCLUDING TORNADOES. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE A THREAT AND THOUGHT ABOUT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. BUT...WITH THE FAIRLY QUICK STORM MOVEMENT...THE THREAT IS LESSENED. THE ONLY EXCEPTION WLD BE FOR TRAINING. WL STL HAV TO WATCH CLOSELY. WENT NEAR GUID ON TEMPS BUT ABOVE ON POPS...ESPLY AVN. LONG... CONTINUED NW FLOW WITH OCCASIONAL S/WV'S. THNK OVERNIGHT MCS WL BE MOVING OUT IN THE AM SO WENT WITH DECREASING POPS. ATMOS SHOULD BE STABALIZED TMRW. MORE STORMS PSBL TMRW NIGHT IF CONVECTION MOVES OFF THE FRONT RANGE. THNK THREAT SHLD BE FURTHER WEST AS EASTERN CWA SHOULD BE STABLIZED ENUF...BUT STILL NOT RULING OUT. KEPT POPS OUT FOR THUR.SDAY BUT THREAT OF CONVECTION VERY LATE IN THE DAY. DDC 062/082 062/082 063 733 GCK 061/081 062/082 062 733 EHA 063/082 064/083 064 733 LBL 064/082 063/083 063 733 HYS 061/080 060/082 061 722 P28 065/086 066/087 065 743 HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 50 min |
| Jul 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Scott | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 31 min |
| Jul 23, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 35 min |
| Jul 23, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 33 min |
| Jul 24, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.