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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 461, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 2, 1996Finney County, Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 9:29 PM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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: Sep 2, 1996, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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
Sep 2, 9:49 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kalvesta, 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 2978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 11.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 030230
SVRDDC
KSC055-069-030330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
929 PM CDT MON SEP 2 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...EASTERN FINNEY COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY
 
AT 926 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA OR 16 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST
OF GARDEN CITY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 KALVESTA                         BY 1005 PM CDT

OTHERWISE THE STORM SHOULD STAY OVER OPEN COUNTRY THROUGH 1030 PM.

LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
 
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.

SS/BPM

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 Sep 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
300 PM CDT MON SEP 2 1996

...SHORT TERM...
PBLM IS PSBLTY OF EVE CNVCTN.  SML SHWRS NOW BTWN NESS CITY AND
WAKEENEY FIRING AT INTERSECTION OF AXIS OF MAX INSTBLTY WITH AXIS OF
BEST LO LVL MSTR CNVGNC. CNVCTN ALSO INCRG ACRS MTS IN COLO THUS WL
KEEP SML POPS IN NRN AND WRN ZNS MAINLY FOR EVE HRS. STG H7 CAP RMNS
IN PLACE AS MID TROPOSHERIC RDG GAINS STRENGTH TNGT...STILL WITH FEW
STORMS ALRDY POKING THRU CAP WL HV TO LV MNTN IN FOR THIS EVE.
OTRWS...XPCT OVRNGT TEMPS CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE FCST...JUST A TAD
UNDER MOS.

...LONGER TERM...
PER ALL MDLS UPR RDG CONTS TO STRENGTHEN OVR RGN THRU 60 HRS SO CHCS
CNVCTN MORE LIMITED IN LTR PDS. BIG PBLM LTR PDS WL BE CHCS FOR MRNG
ST/FG AS SUBSIDENCE INCRG W/ TIME. PER MDLS...BNDRY LYR WNDS SHD
BECOME MORE SRLY WITH TIME IMPLYING SLGTLY DRIER AIR THUS WL TAKE
THE CHANCE AND ALLOW SKY COVER TO DIMINISH IN LTR PDS AND THEREFORE
WL LEAN TOWARD WARMER TEMPS THO NOT NEARLY AS WARM AS FWC WHICH IS
TRYING TO DRY AIRMASS TOO RAPIDLY. CURRENT HI THETAE AIR RMNS ACRS
RGN AD NAUSEUM SO WL AGN CARRY SML POPS FOR LATE AFTN THRU EARLY EVE
TUES IN WRN AND NRN ZNS WHERE LEE TROF CNVGNC BEST.

MDLS SIMILAR IN DIGGING LONG WV TROF INTO PAC CST AT 48HRS AND BYND
WITH NGM DEEPEST. AVN MAY BE BEST COMPROMISE WITH THIS FEATURE THO
MRF IS QUITE CLOSE TOO. IN ANY CASE...LTL SIGN OF BREAKDOWN OF UPR
RDG OVR CNTRL PLNS. THO MDLS STRETCH IT NEWRD WITH TIME...NONE SHOW
ANY SIGN OF BREAKING ANY ENERGY IN OVR THE CNTRL HI PLNS. FMR TEMPS
PRBLY TOO WRM SINCE MRF WL NOT HANDLE LO LVL MSTR WELL NCEP ENSEMBLE
FCSTS CONT THIS PTTN THRU 360 HRS. WHAT WE WOULDNT GIVE FOR A
GOOD...DRY COLD FnNT!

DDC BB 063/086 063/088 063 08111
GCK BB 062/087 062/089 062 08222
EHA BB 063/088 063/090 063 08222
LBL BB 063/087 063/089 063 08222
HYS BB 064/088 064/090 065 08222
P28 BB 068/090 068/092 068 08111

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	45 min
Sep 2, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	62 min
Sep 2, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	64 min
Sep 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	64 min
Sep 2, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	62 min
Sep 2, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	61 min
Sep 3, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.