Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 2, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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 02:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Dodge City, 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, 2.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 7.9
- Supercell composite
- 29.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 030215 TORDDC KSC057-030300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 915 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...FORD COUNTY AT 914 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL FORD COUNTY...NEAR DODGE CITY. WINDS WERE GUSTING TO 58 MPH AT THE DODGE CITY AIRPORT. EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER TO AFFECT MUCH OF FORD COUNTY THROUGH 945 PM. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWI GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GE MCAVOY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 68 min |
| Aug 2, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 45 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.