Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT for Ness County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 4 reports 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 31, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 31, 6:34 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Alexander, KS | |
| May 31, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Bazine, KS | |
| May 31, 7:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Alexander, KS | |
| May 31, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 | Nekoma, 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 312329 TORDDC KSC165-135-010015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 625 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN RUSH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN NESS COUNTY AT 625 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A LARGE TORNADO NEAR BAZINE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR ALEXANDER BY 700 PM CDT. PERSONS IN BAZINE AND NEAR ALEXANDER TAKE ACTION NOW! THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWI GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GE NICHOLS/MCAVOY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 41 min |
| May 31, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 56 min |
| May 31, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| May 31, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 50 min |
| May 31, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 41 min |
| May 31, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 48 min |
| May 31, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness | 53 min |
| May 31, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 42 min |
| May 31, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 43 min |
| May 31, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 30 min |
| May 31, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 15 min |
| May 31, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 41 min |
| May 31, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 43 min |
| May 31, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 42 min |
| May 31, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 38 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.