Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1996, 8:14 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1996, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 120114 TORDDC KSC097-120145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 814 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY AT 810 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG INDICATION OF A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. IT WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY WEST OF HIGHWAY 183. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITUR&E. 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. BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 22 min |
| Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Comanche | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.