Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 6, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Liebenthal, KS | |
| Jul 6, 9:08 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rush Center, KS | |
| Jul 6, 9:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Alexander, 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 070148 TORDDC KSC165-070215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 846 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN RUSH COUNTY AT 846 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER THE TOWN OF LIEBENTHAL. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH LA CROSSE BY 900 PM CDT AND RUSH CENTER BY 910 PM CDT. TAKE COVER NOW!! DO NOT WAIT!! IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITC H OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. JOHNSON/REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 47 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.