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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 1996Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1996, 6:01 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
May 24, 1996, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 6:35 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 6:02 PM CDTTornado F1Bucklin, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 9 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 242304
TORDDC
KSC057-242335-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
601 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY
 
AT 600 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES SOUTH OF WINDTHORST MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
 WINDTHORST                       BY 610 PM CDT
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND
IF AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PARKIN/JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade47 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward40 min
May 24, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee51 min
May 24, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa48 min
May 24, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
May 24, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord31 min
May 24, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark31 min
May 24, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee48 min
May 24, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
May 24, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford49 min
May 24, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton51 min
May 24, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark47 min
May 24, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStafford34 min
May 24, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards51 min
May 24, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford48 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.