Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 31, 1996, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)

Expired

Jul 31, 1996, 9:40 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Rush County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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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TTAA00 KDDC 010154
SVRDDC
KSC165-010240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
853 PM CDT WED JUL 31 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...WESTERN RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 850 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF LIEBENTHAL MOVING SOUTH AT
20 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 LIEBENTHAL                       BY 855 PM CDT
 MC CRACKEN                       BY 910 PM CDT
 HARGRAVE                         BY 920 PM CDT
 LA CROSSE                        BY 925 PM CDT
 RUSH CENTER                      BY 930 PM CDT

THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER
TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR OTHER SAFE
STRUCTURE.
 
JOHNSON/STOUT
 
"

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 31, 2:52 PM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.

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

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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.