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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 21, 1996Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1996, 9:40 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 3 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 21, 1996, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 21, 9:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Montezuma, KS
Jun 21, 9:52 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 54Ingalls, KS
Jun 21, 9:53 PM CDTThunderstorm WindCimarron, 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2938 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2938 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
13.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 220240
TORDDC
KSC069-220330-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
940 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY
 
AT 938 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
 CHARLESTON                       BY 945 PM CDT
 INGALLS                          BY 1000 PM CDT
 CIMARRON                         BY 1015 PM CDT
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS IN A BASEMENT.  IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS.

SEARCY/STOUT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton50 min
Jun 21, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton45 min
Jun 21, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 min
Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell49 min
Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny44 min
Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant50 min
Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney60 min
Jun 21, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott28 min
Jun 21, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton50 min
Jun 21, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny64 min
Jun 21, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell48 min
Jun 21, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray64 min
Jun 21, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord60 min
Jun 21, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Lane, Ness63 min
Jun 21, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney50 min
Jun 21, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray45 min
Jun 21, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee56 min
Jun 21, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton49 min
Jun 21, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego47 min
Jun 21, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush62 min
Jun 21, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness45 min
Jun 21, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee47 min
Jun 21, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego64 min
Jun 21, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton46 min
Jun 22, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush55 min
Jun 22, 12:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny48 min
Jun 22, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton47 min
Jun 22, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton47 min
Jun 22, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton62 min
Jun 22, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton48 min

Nearby

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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.