Severe Thunderstorm Warning 447, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Aug 19, 1996, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)

Expired

Aug 19, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
457 PM CDT MON AUG 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...WESTERN MEADE COUNTY
   ...EASTERN SEWARD COUNTY
 
AT 454 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF KISMET MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 PLAINS                           BY 520 PM CDT


 
REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT
CLOUD.  PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS
NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 19, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
315 PM CDT MON AUG 19 1996

...SHORT TERM...
MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM IS CHANCE OF TSTM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING.
18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS COLD FRONT THROUGH MOST OF EXTREME WESTERN
KANSAS AND CONTINUING TO PUSH TO THE SOUTHEAST. ATM OVER SW KANSAS
REMAINS UNSTABLE. MODIFIED THE MORNING SOUNDING FOR 18Z CONDITIONS AND
CAME UP WITH AN LI OF -8 AND OVER 3000 J/KG. HAVE CHOSEN TO INCREASE
POPS OVER THE NORTHRN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE CWA WHERE IT APPEARS
THE FRONT WILL ALLOW FOR PLENTY OF LIFT AND MOSTURE CONVERGENCE WILL BE
THE STRONGEST. SHEAR PROFILE INDICATED THERE COULD BE SOME SEVERE WEATHER
WITH THIS SYSTEM. NGM HAS A MUCH BETTER HANDLING ON THIS SYSTEM AS FAR
AS THE CONTINUITY THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD GOES. THE ETA DOES NOT.
SUBSIDENCE SHOULD MOVE INTO THE AREA RAPIDLY BEHIND THE FRONT...SO
LOOK FOR ANY TSTM ACTIVITY TO END AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.

...LONG TERM...
IN LATER PERIODS...FOR NOW STILL PREFER THE NGM SOLUTION. FRH KEEPS AN
ABUNDANCE OF MOSTURE IN THE AREA...SO SHOULD SEE CLOUD COVER OVER MUCH
OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY AND THROUGHOUT TUESDAY NIGHT. SERIES OF
SHORTWAVES CONTINUE TO WRAP AROUND THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH AND DEWPOINTS
FORECAST TO REMAIN IN THE LOWER 60S...SO FEEL THAT AT LEAST SOME SMALL
POPS ARE NEEDED DURING THE NIGHT PERIODS. WITH THE EXPECTED CLOUD COVER
ON TUESDAY...HAVE CHOSEN TO FOLLOW THE COOLER FWC FOR TEMPS. NEXT FRONT
FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY...WHICH SHOULD ALLOW FOR
YET ANOTHER CHANCE OF TSTMS DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHT PERIODS.

DDC  066/087 068/090 065 312
GCK  064/087 066/090 064 512
EHA  063/088 065/092 063 312
LBL  065/088 06\6/091 064 312
HYS  065/085 066/088 063 512
P28  070/090 071/091 070 212

PARKIN

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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.