Severe Thunderstorm Warning 497, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Nov 15, 1996, 5:24 PM CST (23:24 UTC)

Expired

Nov 15, 1996, 6:10 PM CST

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Meade County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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
524 PM CST FRI NOV 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...NORTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY
 
AT 521 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF FOWLER MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FOWLER                                      BY 530 PM CST

 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
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/CICCONE

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 15, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 PM CST FRI NOV 15 1996

...ANOTHER TUFFY...

WILL KEEP IT SHORT WITH DEVELOPING TSRA.

FRONT EXTENDS FROM ABOUT HYS TO NORTH OF EHA.  LOOKS LIKE IT IS
BEGINING TO MOVE BACK SLIGHTLY TO THE SOUTH AS HLCS TEMP DROPPED FROM
14C TO 3C BETWEEN 14 AND 15Z.  ALSO...88D SHOWING TSRA DEVELOPING IN TX
PANHANDLE AND IN NORTHERN CWA.

PROBLEM THIS PACKAGE WILL BE LOCATION OF FRONT TONIGHT/SATURDAY AND
WHERE TO PUT TSRA AND SNOW AREAS. LOOKS LIKE FRONT WILL CUT FROM
SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST THROUGH CENTER OF CWA FRI MORNING (DEPENDING ON
WHAT TSRA DOES TO IT). LOOKS LIKE AMPLE MOISTURE TO OVER RUN FRONT.
WILL KEEP WSW FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH ZONES FOR SATURDAY.  FOR
TONIGHT...WILL MENTION VERY HI POPS ACROSS MUCH OF CWA AS WE SHOULD BE
UNDER GOOD PVA WITH LOTS OF LOW LEVEL MOSITURE. MODELS POINT TOWARD
GOOD INSTABILITY TONIGHT AND MAY SEE SOME SEVERE. MODELS ALSO HINT
TOWARD DRY SLOT OVER AREA SAT NIGHT...BUT EXPECT TO SEE SOME RAP AROUND.
MODELS MAY BE MOVING SFC LOW TOO FAST WITH LARGE HIGH EAST. BUT EXPECT
PCPN TO END OVER MOST OF AREA BY LATE SAT NIGHT OR SUNDAY MORNING AND
WILL KEEP POPS LOW FOR SUN.

FOR TEMPS...GUIDANCE DOESNT SEEM REALISTIC AND HAVE MADE SEVERAL
ADJUSTMENTS.

DDC 045/045 027/047 030 96-
GCK 043/045 027/048 029 86-
EHA 039/054 026/052 033 510
LBL 040/052 028/053 034 851
HYS 035/038 028/042 030 ++3
P28 055/062 031/030 034 ++0

REITER

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

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.