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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 13, 1996Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1996, 6:13 AM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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: May 13, 1996, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1996, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:14 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 13, 6:15 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Hugoton, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 386 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 131113
SVRDDC
KSC189-131145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
613 AM CDT MON MAY 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...STEVENS COUNTY
 
AT 610 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HUGOTON
AND A SECOND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUGOTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM OVER HUGOTON WILL MOVE INTO
OPEN FARMLAND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUGOTON BY 630 AM CDT. THE STORM TO
THE NORTHWEST WILL REACH HUGOTON BY 630 AM CDT.
 
THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU
ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS YOU SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER
INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
JOHNSON

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 13, 4:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 4:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
315 AM CDT MON MAY 13 1996

RCMD: ONLY MINOR TWEEKS XCPT TO ADD MNTN PSBL SVR TNGT AND WINDY TUE.

PBLM THIS CYCLE WL BE TEMPS AND CNVCTN AGN.

NONE OF MDLS HV LOW OVR NM DEEP ENUF OR FAR ENUF N. ETA IS BEST AND WL
USE. BNDRY LYR UPSLP FLOW TO CONT TDY WITH UPR BAROCLINIC ZN OVRHD THUS
WL KEEP MNTN POPS ALL DAY.  S/WVS IN NW FLOW NOT HANDLED WL BY MDLS
EITHER SO TIMING FOR CNVCTN ALSO A TOSS UP.  WL TRY TO TIME S/WV INTO
RGN LATE AFTN/EVE PD BY XTRAP FM NSAT AND MSWIS H20 VPR IMAGERY. BY
AFTN CLOUD SHD THIN ENUF TO LET IN SOME SS SO MDL CAPES MAY NOT BE TOO
FAR OUT OF LINE. PER SPC...COMBO OF HIGH CAPES AND STG LOW LVL POS
TURNED HODOGRAPH WL GIVE CHC ISOLD SVR THIS EVE/TNGT ESPCLY SINCE ARLDY
HAVE DIMES FM STORMS IN SW. SOME CNCRN ABOUT CAP IN TEETH OF WAA ALOFT
BUT S/WVS MOVG THRU BAROCLINIC ZN MAY BE ENUF TO PUSH PARCELS THRU
CAP. WL CVR MRNG CNVCTN WITH NOWCASTS AS STORMS REMAIN BORDERLINE.
.
AS TO TEMPS...LAST 3 DAYS MOS NUMBERS HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN WRONG...
THEY HAVE BEEN MISLEADING. ADJUSTED TEMPS TO FIT E-SE FLOW ACRS RGN
TDY...THUS GENERALLY WENT ABOUT 10-12 DEG COOLER THAN YSTRDY XCPT
ARND HYS WHERE LTL MORE SS TDY SHD GIVE LTL WRMR TEMPS. AS LUCK WLD
HV IT...GOING FCST PRETTY CLOSE ON THIS COUNT. LO LVL JET TO SET UP
MON NGT TO HELP FEED TSTMS WITH 60+ DWPT AIR TO THE S AND WL KEEP
WNDS UP ON TUESDAY WHEN DRIER...MUCH WRMR AIR ARRIVES.

DDC 070/056 090/060 095 331
GCK 073/055 092/058 097 330
EHA 076/056 094/060 099 320
LBL 075/057 093/062 099 320
HYS 066/056 084/060 093 331
P28 071/057 088/064 094 331

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	37 min
May 13, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	30 min
May 13, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	38 min
May 13, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	33 min
May 13, 5:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton, Stevens	26 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.