Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 25, 1996, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)

Expired

May 25, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Hodgeman County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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
1041 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY
 
AT 1038 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF JETMORE MOVING EAST AT 40
MPH. THE MAIN DANGER FROM THIS STORM IS FOR 60 TO 70 MILE AN HOUR
WEST TO NORTHWEST STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
 JETMORE                          BY 1055 PM CDT
 HANSTON                          BY 1110 PM CDT
 GRAY                             BY 1115 PM CDT
 
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.

JOHNSON/MCAVOY/STEINMETZ

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 3:31 PM CDT, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1996

THE MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM IS WHERE THE TSTMS WILL OCCUR TONIGHT. DYNAMICS
APPEAR TO BE SETTING UP FARTHER TO THE SOUTH AND WEST ALREADY THIS AFTN.
PREFER THE NGM/AVN SOLUTION OF MOVING THE LOW MORE EAST NORTHEASTWARD
TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. AT 19Z...THE FRONT APPEARD TO BE STRETCHING FROM
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO THROUGH THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND NORTHWARD THROUGH
CENTRAL KANSAS...WITH THE DRYLINE SITUATED OVER EXTREME EASTERN NEW
MEXICO. CONVECTION ALREADY DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO
...WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY FARTHER SOUTH THAN LAST NIGHT. AGREE WITH THE
SWODY1 DISCUSSION THAT THE BEST DYNAMICS TO REMAIN FARTHER SOUTH...SO
VERY SOUTHERN TIER OR TWO OF COUNTIES SHOULD BE THE ONES TO GET ANY
SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION TONIGHT...WITH THE REST OF THE CWA LIKELY TO
SEE OVERRUNNING PRECIP WITH A FEW EMBEDDED TSTMS.

ON SUNDAY...AS THE LOW MOVES BACK UP INTO NEBRASKA...THE FRONT DRGAS
NORTHWARD ALSO. ALL THE MODELS SHOW A FAIRLY STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING
INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE BY SUNDAY EVENING...WITH THIS
COMBINATION OF FACTORS BRINGING THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER BACK TO
MUCH OF THE CWA. HAVE RECOMMENDED INCREASING POPS ON SUNDAY OVER THE
ENTIRE CWA.

GENERALLY FOLLOWED A BLEND OF GUIDANCE FOR ALL TEMPS.

DDC  061/074 054/074 053 663
GCK  060/073 053/075 052 563
EHA  058/074 052/076 052 663
LBL  060/076 054/076 0532 663
HYS  060/070 052/073 050 563
P28  066/078 056/077 055 663

PARKIN

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.