Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 9, 1996, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)

Expired

May 9, 1996, 8:40 PM CDT

In force

27 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Stafford County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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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SVRDDC
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
813 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY
 
..THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST STAFFORD COUNTY HAS
BEEN EXTENDED...

AT 805 PM CDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...LOCATED OVER NEOLA WAS
CONTINUING TO MOVE EAST AT 20 MPH...BUT WAS RAPIDLY REDEVELOPING
TOWARD THE WEST.  AT 803 PM...A SPOTTER 4 MILES WEST OF NEOLA
REPORTED 1 INCH HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE 1 INCH HAIL OR
LARGER.  THE STORM APPEARS TO BE MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST.  THIS
MEANS THAT HEAVY RAINFTALL AMOUNTS CAN BE EXPECTED.  IF YOU COME
ACROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT.

REITER/GERARD

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 9, 3:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
325 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

88D SHOWS SFC BOUNDRY JUST EAST OF DDC.  LOOKS LIKE MAIN PROBLEM FOR
TONIGHT IS TRWS AGAIN OVER AREAS WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT.
NGM GRIDDED DATA SHOWS THETA-E RIDGE FROM SOUTH CENTRAL TO NE KANSAS
WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY (A BIT FURTHER EAST AND MORE N-S ORIENTED THAN
YESTERDAY). ALSO DIFFLUENT THICKNES OVER CENTRAL AND EAST WHICH WOULD
INDICATE THAT TRWS WILL DEVELOP IN THETA RIDGE IN EASTERN PORTION OF
CWA AND BE VERY SLOW MOVERS. S/W OVER SE COLORADO WILL MOVE OVER CWA
THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD MOVE OVER THETA-E RIDGE BY 23Z. LOOK FOR TRWS A
THAT TIME.

STRONG COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL MOVE INTO CWA BY 3-4Z. MAY
SEE TRWS ALONG FRONT BUT FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH QUICKLY LEAVING LOW
CLOUDS...F...AND DRIZZLE DUE TO UPSLOPE COMPONENT AND PVA FROM VORT MAX
OVER WESTERN AZ.  TEMPS FRIDAY ARE GOING TO BE MUCH COOLER THAN TODAY
AS MUCH COOLER AIR PLUNGES INTO STATE OVERNIGHT.  MOST LOCATIONS WILL
NOT SEE HIGH MUCH MORE THAN THE MIDDLE 60S.  CLOUD COVER MAY NOT LAST
AS LONG AROUND EHA SO THAT MAY WARM UP A BIT MORE.

DDC  054/067 050/075 047 42-
GCK  051/065 047/073 046 42-
EHA  055/073 049/080 048 32-
LBL  054/068 048/076 047 42-
HYS  050/062 045/068 045 43-
P28  061/070 056/080 051 62-

REITER/GERARD

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...ADDITIONAL REPORTS FROM 5/8...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DODGE CITY KS
220 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0812 PM    4 N FORD                  KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    FORD

0822 PM    5 N FORD                  KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    FORD

0924 PM    HOPEWELL                  KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    PRATT

0928 PM    HOPEWELL                  KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    PRATT

0946 PM    3 WNW BYERS               KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    PRATT

0946 PM    4 E HOPEWELL              KS   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    PRATT

0951 PM    4 E HOPEWELL              KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/8/96    PRATT

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.