Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 8:03 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 4, 1996, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 8:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 4, 8:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Cedar Bluff Res, 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 2545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 050104 SVRDDC KSC195-050150- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 803 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...TREGO COUNTY AT 802 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WESTERN TREGO COUNTY. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM 11 MILES WEST OF WAKEENEY TO 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKEENEY. STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY AHEAD OF AND WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. PARKIN/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 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.