Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1996, 8:09 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 4 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 23, 1996, 8:09 PM MDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1996, 8:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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 23, 8:16 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Coolidge, KS | |
| Jul 23, 8:16 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Coolidge, KS | |
| Jul 23, 8:20 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Coolidge, KS | |
| Jul 23, 8:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Kendall, 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 240210 TORDDC KSC075-240240- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 909 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM MDT (940 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY AT 807 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF COOLIDGE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL THREATEN SYRACUSE BY 840 PM MDT. 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. CICCONE/STOUT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 50 min |
| Jul 23, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Scott | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 7:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 8:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 35 min |
| Jul 23, 9:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 9:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 10:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 10:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 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.