Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 11:09 PM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 3 reports 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
- May 9, 1996, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gray County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 11:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Plains, KS | |
| May 9, 11:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Meade, KS | |
| May 9, 11:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ensign, 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 1389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 100410 SVRDDC KSC069-119-100440- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1109 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1140 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY AT 1106 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES SOUTH OF COPELAND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. 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. JOHNSON/HUTTON
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 May 9, 3:24 PM CDT, 7 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:24 PM CDT, 7 hours 45 minutes before
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
Local storm report, May 9, 9:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
930 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 PM 12 SE BUTTERMILK KS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 COMMANCHE
0622 PM 10 SE PRATT KS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 PRATT
0630 PM 2S 9E BUTTERMILK KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 COMMANCHE
0710 PM 4 S ZENITH KS 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
0714 PM 13 E BUTTERMILK KS 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 COMMANCHE
0715 PM 8 S STAFFORD KS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
0720 PM 7S 3E MACKSVILLE KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
0727 PM 10 W HARDTNER KS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 BARBER
0730 PM 8 S STAFFORD KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
0750 PM 1 S ZENITH KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
0803 PM 8 S STAFFORD KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
0818 PM 4 S ZENITH KS 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/9/96 STAFFORD
BURKE/STEINMETZSpecial weather statement, May 9, 11:03 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
KSZ030-031-046-065>066-079>081-088>090-100900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1103 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996 TORNADO WATCH 329 HAS EXPIRED FOR ELLIS..RUSH..PAWNEE..EDWARDS.. STAFFORD..KIOWA..PRATT..CLARK..COMANCHE AND BARBER COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. WHILE NEW STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED...THE INTENSITY OF THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TONIGHT FOR STAFFORD..EDWARDS..AND PRATT COUNTIES. BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 32 min |
| May 9, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 33 min |
| May 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 30 min |
| May 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 31 min |
| May 9, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 27 min |
| May 9, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 31 min |
| May 9, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 34 min |
| May 9, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 34 min |
| May 9, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 31 min |
| May 9, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 33 min |
| May 10, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| May 10, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 49 min |
| May 10, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 50 min |
| May 10, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 49 min |
| May 10, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 45 min |
| May 10, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 47 min |
| May 10, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 50 min |
| May 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 50 min |
| May 10, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 47 min |
| May 10, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 13 min |
| May 10, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 48 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.