Tornado Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 11, 1996, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)

Expired

Jun 11, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Pawnee County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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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TTAA00 KDDC 112329
TORDDC
KSC145-120000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
629 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY
 
AT 627 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ZOOK MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL PASS
1 TO 2 MILES WEST OF ZOOK AND WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN EXTREME
SOUTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT.
GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.  IF NO BASEMENT
IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR
BODY.  AT ALL TIMES...YOU SHOULD AVOID WINDOWS.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
359 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996

PREFERRED TO USE THE NGM MODEL SINCE NGM USUALLY HANDLES MONSOONAL
MOISTURE RETURN BETTER (W GULF NWD TO W SIDE OF ROCKIES/UPR HI PRES).
BUT, SINCE NCEP HAD SUCH TROUBLE GENERATING NGM GRAPHICS...FCST SWAYED
BY ETA/AVN COMPROMISE.  AVN SEEMS TO DO BEST BEST SFC FEATURES THIS
PACKAGE...MOVING SFC TROF E TO ABT DDC BY 12/00Z.  MINOR PVA CNTRS
SWIRLING OUT AND ACRS TOP OF STRG HI PRES RDG/DOME OVER E COLORADO.
LIKE NGM FOR TIMING OF VORT MAXS CROSSING CWA.  SO WENT WITH CHC CAT
DURING NT PDS AND SLGT CHC IN DAY.

WATCH NEEDED FOR E TWO TIERS OF COUNTIES EARLY THIS EVENING WHERE MOISTR
CONVERGING ALONG VRY WEAK DRYLINE (60S VS 50S DWPTS).  LIGHT S FLOW HAS
PERSISTED THERE ALL DAY...ADVECTING MOISTR N FROM OK.  ANOTHER SVR
WATCH MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING W OF CURRENT WATCH.

DDC 063/092 062/094 061 232
GCK 063/093 062/095 061 323
EHA 063/094 063/095 062 323
LBL 062/094 063/094 062 323
HYS 062/089 060/090 058 332
P28 064/092 062/092 060 332

BURKE

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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.