Severe Thunderstorm Warning 429, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Aug 4, 1996, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ness County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 050057
SVRDDC
KSC135-050145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
757 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...NESS COUNTY
 
AT 755 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN NESS COUNTY. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM
5 MILES SOUTH OF BEELER TO 8 MILES WEST OF UTICA. THESE STORMS WILL
BE NEAR:

 BEELER                            BY 810 PM CDT
 UTICA                             BY 815 PM CDT
 ARNOLD                            BY 825 PM CDT
 RANSOM                            BY 835 PM CDT
 NESS CITY                         BY 835 PM CDT

THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND
HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING.
 
WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

PARKIN/MCAVOY

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
327 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996

FCST CHALLENGE TGT IS AMOUNT OF CONVECTION.  TWO SEPERATE S/WV TRFS TO
AFFECT THE CWA...ONE WAS ANALYZED IN SOUTHWEST NM ON THIS MORNINGS UA
DATA...WITH STRONGER WV IN THE GREAT BASIN.  NGM AND ETA HANDLE THE
SYSTEMS DIFFERENTLY WITH THE NGM HOLDING ON TO THE NM S/WV A LITTLE
STRONGER.  BASED ON PROFILERS...THE NM S/WV DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE THAT
STRONG BUT MAY BE ENUF TO HELP BREAK THE CAP ACRS THE AREA.  HIGH
THETA-E AIR REMAINS ACRS THE AREA...THERE IS A LOT OF INSTABILITY.
CONVECTION FIRING THIS PM IN SOUTHEAST COLO AND FAR NORTHEAST NM ALONG
WESTERN EDGE OF DEEPER MOISTER AS SEEN BY WATER VAPOR LOOP.  CAA IN THE
MID LEVELS COUPLED WITH AT LEAST SOME DYNAMICS AND JUICY BNDRY LYR AIR
SHLD BE ENUF TO SET OFF AT LEAST SCT CONVECTION TGT.  WENT WITH 50/50
POPS WHICH WILL ALSO BE CONSISTENT WITH GOING FCST.  A SVR STORM OR TWO
IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION.  EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS THE BIGGEST MCS WL
BE IN NE/IA...THERE COULD ALSO BE A DECENT COMPLEX DEVELOP IN W KS.

IN LATER PDS...ETA IS FURTHEST SOUTH WITH THE GREAT BASIN S/WV BUT WITH
ALL THREE (NGM/ETA/AVN) BRINGING PVA/PIVA ACRS THE CWA OVERNIGHT.  SO
THERE MAY BE CONVECTION AFTER MIDNIGHT.  SFC TO RESPOND LATER TMRW TO
STRONG UPPER SYSTEM DROPPING INTO NORTHERN ROCKIES.  SFC TO REMAIN
MOIST WITH THE WEAKEST CAP IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE CWA.  ANY SFC
CONVERGENCE COULD SET UP A TRW SO WENT WITH LATE AFTN POPS FAR EAST
WITH 20/40 POPS EAST HALF TMRW NIGHT WITH UVV AGAIN FROM WK S/WV.

DDC 068/094 071/096 071 512
GCK 066/095 069/098 069 512
EHA 065/096 067/098 068 511
LBL 066/095 068/097 069 512
HYS 069/093 071/098 072 523^
P28 074/098 073/099 073 424

HUTTON

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