Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1996, 6:54 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 6 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
- Jun 11, 1996, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:56 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Belpre, KS | |
| Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Belpre, KS | |
| Jun 11, 7:02 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Belpre, KS | |
| Jun 11, 7:04 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Belpre, KS | |
| Jun 11, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Belpre, KS | |
| Jun 11, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Lewis, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 57 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996
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.