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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 2, 1996Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1996, 5:56 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 1996, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1996, 6:55 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 1996-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1475 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 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
1475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
11.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 022255
TORDDC
KSC187-022355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
556 PM CDT MON SEP 2 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...WESTERN STANTON COUNTY
 
AT 554 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 1 MILE
SOUTHWEST OF SAUNDERS ELEVATOR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  THIS
MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE TORNADO NEAR OR ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 160.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
 SAUNDERS ELEVATOR                BY 600 PM CDT
 MANTOR                           BY 635 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.

BURKE/MCAVOY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton59 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.