Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 392, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT for Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 31, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 312328 SVRDDC KSC129-187-010015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 627 PM CDT WED JUL 31 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN MORTON COUNTY ...SOUTHERN STANTON COUNTY AT 625 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAUNDERS ELEVATOR MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BELL/STOUT
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 31, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 250 PM CDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...SHORT TERM... QUESTION FOR THE SHORT TERM BECOMES IF/WHEN THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO/DEVELOP OVER WESTERN 1/2 CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. LATEST SATELLITE/SFC ANAL CONTINUES SHOWS NEBULOUS FRONT HAS MOVED EAST INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA AT 1930Z. ADAP ALSO SHOWING INSTABILITY HAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY OVER WESTERN PORTIONS CWA WHERE INSOLATION HAS BEEN GREATEST...ALSO BEST MOISTURE CONV VCNTY GCK WEST AND SOUTH. ABOUT ONLY CONCERN IS POTENTIAL CAP ARND 700 MB. BELIEVE THIS TO STILL BE AROUND 2 OR 3 DEGREES C...BUT WITH WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING APPROACHING S/W OVER EASTERN WY AND NORTHEAST CO...HAVE TO BELIEVE A LITTLE COOLING WILL OCCUR. LATEST SAT SHOWING TSRA GOING OFF NOW IN EASTERN WY AND MTNS OF CO. SO WITH THAT...WENT GOOD CHANCE POPS IN EXTREME WEST AND TRENDED DOWN EAST. FOR TEMPS TONIGHT...HAVE GENERALLY FOLLOWED GUID. ...LONG TERM... AS HAS BEEN CASE LAST FEW DAYS NGM/AVN BLEND APRS BEST IN LTR PDS THO NGM INITIALIZATION STILL 2-4MB TOO LOW ON SFC PRESS AT 18Z THUS IS STILL ADJUSTING TO COOL AIR OVR CNTRL PLNS. FCST IS FOR NNW TO SSE BAROCLINIC ZN TO RMN IN PLACE OVR CNTRL KS THUS WL HV TO KEEP SOME AFTN AND EVE POPS IN FCST THRU FRI THO AS BAROCLINIC ZN INCHES EWRD WL HV LARGER POPS IN ERN ZNS FRI EVE. AS TO TEMPS IN LTR PDS... FAN AND FWC IN GOOD GENERAL AGREEMENT AND WL NOT VIOLATE. FOR XTND PD PREFER MRF/UKMO SLTN OF DEEPENING W CST TROF WITH H5 HIGH ENDING UP OVR NRN NM. THIS WL FAVOR MONSOON MSTR WRAPPING ARND TOP OF HIGH AND DUMPING INTO PLNS RGN SO XPCT WRN HI PLNS TO SEE NR TO ABV NORMAL TEMPS AND AT LEAST SML CHC PCPN THRU PD. THIS DIFFERS FROM MRF MSTR FIELDS BUT MRF NOT GOOD WITH MONSOONAL MSTR ANYWAY. DDC 066/091 067/093 069 523 GCK 065/093 065/095 066 523 EHA 068/094 065/097 066 523 LBL 068/093 066/096 067 523 HYS 064/088 067/093 068 343N P28 070/090 070/095 071 343 JOHNSON/SEARCY
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.