Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 18, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 18, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1996, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 760 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 190205 TORDDC KSC175-190240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 905 PM CDT WED SEP 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN SEWARD COUNTY AT 903 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KISMET MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KISMET BY 910 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.r..GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. PERSONS IN THE KISMET AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW!!! PARKIN/KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 29 min |
| Sep 18, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 54 min |
| Sep 18, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 33 min |
| Sep 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 33 min |
| Sep 18, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 35 min |
| Sep 18, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 61 min |
| Sep 18, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 51 min |
| Sep 18, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 35 min |
| Sep 19, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.