Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 26, 1996, 1:38 AM CDT (06:38 UTC)

Expired

Jul 26, 1996, 2:25 AM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Barber County, KS

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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
138 AM CDT FRI JUL 26 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

   ...BARBER COUNTY
 
AT 136 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE MOVING EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 BARBER STATE LAKE                BY 150 AM CDT
 MEDICINE LODGE                   BY 155 AM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND I2N 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.

BURKE/REITER

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 3:31 PM CDT, 10 hours 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 PM CDT THU JUL 25 1996

MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS TSTM CHANCES TONIGHT AND TEMPS ON FRIDAY.
SHOWER AND TSTM ACTIVITY ALREADY OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN
COLORADO AT THIS TIME WITH MOVEMENT TO THE SOUTHEAST ALONG THE 850 MB
FRONT. SHORTWAVES TO CONTINUE TO RIDE OVER THE TOP OF THE WEST COAST
RIDGE AND INTO THE PLAINS. PROFILERS CURRENTLY SHOWING A WEAK WAVE
OVER SOUTHERN WY AND NORTHERN CO. DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S OVER THE CWA
WITH TEMPS ALREADY SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE CONVECTIVE TEMP FOR THE DAY.
WITH THE INSTABILITY AND THE FRONT TO SERVE AS A FOCUS POINT...FEEL
THAT THUNDERSTORMS ARE A PRETTY GOOD BET AGAIN TONIGHT. THE SHORTWAVE
DOES NOT LOOK TO BE IN A REAL PRIME POSITION UNTIL LATER IN THE
EVENING...BUT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT ALREADY GOING ON TO THE WEST OF THE
REGION...WILL NOT RULE OUT A FEW EARLIER STORMS. WILL GO WITH LIKELY
POPS TONIGHT...THEN TAPER THINGS OFF BY MORNING. FRIDAY LOOKS TO BE
A POSSIBLE REPEAT...WITH MCS DEVELOPMENT A BIT FARTHER TO THE EAST
AS THE MODELS ALL SHOW THE BEST PVA FROM ABOUT CENTRAL KANSAS
EASTWARD. GARP DATA SHOWING A GOOD THETA-E RIDGE AND HIGH CAPES OVER
WESTERN KANSAS THOUGH DURING THAT SAME TIME PERIOD...SO MAY SEE SOME
OUTFLOW TYPE DEVELOPMENT WEST OF THE MCS ITSELF. WILL GENERALLY JUST
FOLLOW ALONG WITH PERSISTANCE AND KEEP LOWER POPS GOING DURING THE
DAYTIME PERIODS AND HIGHER CATEGORICAL POPS DURING THE EVENING AND
NIGHTS.

UPSLOPE WINDS TO CONTINUE BRINGING MOISTURE INTO THE REGION WITH
GUIDANCE INDICATING DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD.
LOW TO MID LEVEL CLOUDS LIKELY TO HANG AROUND ALL DAY FRIDAY...WHICH
ARE LIKELY TO HINDER DAYTIME TEMPS. HAVE GONE LOWER THAN GUIDANCE
FOR THIS REASON.

DDC  064/077 063/084 064 636
GCK  063/078 062/085 062 635
EHA  064/077 064/087 063 635
LBL  064/077 063/086 064 635
HYS  064/075 062/083 062 636
P28  067/080 065/087 066 636

PARKIN

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

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.