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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 403, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 1, 1996Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 2:11 AM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 1996, 2:11 AM CDT (07:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 1, 2:30 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Jetmore, KS

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 010713
SVRDDC
KSC083-010800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
211 AM CDT THU AUG 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...HODGEMAN COUNTY
 
AT 209 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
STRECHING FROM 15 MILES WEST OF JETMORE TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JETMORE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO
3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE
NEAR JETMORE BY 220 AM AND HANSTON BY 240 AM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY INSIDE AND STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
 
PARKIN/KRUSE

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, 11 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:52 PM CDT, 11 hours 19 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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 1:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

KSZ030-031-046-065-066-079-080-081-088-089-090-010700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
100 AM CDT THU AUG 1 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1 AM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 894 HAS BEEN CANCELLED
WHICH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...TREGO...ELLIS...RUSH...PAWNEE
...EDWARDS...KIOWA...PRATT...CLARK...COMANCHE...AND BARBER.

KRUSE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	45 min
Jul 31, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	49 min
Jul 31, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	41 min
Jul 31, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	47 min
Jul 31, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	47 min
Jul 31, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	27 min
Jul 31, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	34 min
Jul 31, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	48 min
Aug 1, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	49 min
Aug 1, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	51 min
Aug 1, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	61 min
Aug 1, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	57 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.