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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 15, 1997Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 6:17 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 15, 1997, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -226 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 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 152317 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC129-152345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
617 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST MORTON COUNTY

* AT 614 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROLLA MOVING EAST" AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH AND WIND
SPEEDS GREATER THAN 55 MPH.  TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND
YOUR PROPERTY.  MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

CICCONE/PARKIN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

BIGGEST CHALLENGE THIS FCST IS WHERE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE.
THEN...HOW CLOUDS WILL INFLUENCE TEMPS PDS 2 AND 3.

19Z SFC CHART CHART SHOWS SURFACE LOW ALMOST DIRECTLY OVER GCK WITH
WEAK DRY LINE TRAILING SW INTO ERN NM.  60+ DEW PTS COVER ERN 2/3RDS OF
CWA.  20Z ADAP SHOWS LI/S OF -6 ACRS ALL CWA AND NO CAP AS OF
20Z...THUS TSTMS COULD FIRE ANY TIME NOW.  FOR NOW...THINK FIRST
DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ALONG BOUNDRY MARKED BY LINE OF CU FROM WEST OF HYS
TO WEST OF GCK.  THEN...THIS LN OF STORMS SHOULD MARCH EASTWARD AS
STORMS MOVE NEWD.  MUCH RICHER SFC MOISTURE IN E PART OF CWA...WITH 19Z
DEW PTS IN 67-68 DEG RANGE.  UPR FLOW VEERS(SLIGHTLY) TO WEST AND
SPECIAL 18Z SOUNDING SHOWS WEAK CAA TAKING PLACE ALOFT.  THIS ALL
POINTS TO PSBL SVR STORMS THIS EVENING IN S AND CNTRL PARTS OF CWA...WL
MENTION PSBL SVR THERE BUT WITH CHC POPS.
MODELS ALL IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TAKING SFC FRNT MARCHING ACROS
CWA FROM NW TNGT...THEN FROM W OKLA TO NE MO BY 16/12Z...THEN HIGH
PRESS PUSHES IT FARTHER S BEFORE COOLER AND DRIER AIR SETTLES IN MON NT
AND TUES.  WILL GO WITH LOWER CHC POPS IN ALL BUT NRN COUNTIES MON NT
AND TUES.

FOR TEMPS...WL GO CLOSE TO GUIDANCE TNGT BUT LOWER BY A CATG MON/S
HIGHS WITH CLOUDS TO SURPRESS SOLAR HEATING.  THEN BACK CLOSE TO
GUIDANCE FOR PDS 3 AND 4.

.DDC...NONE.

DDC 060/078 058/081 0.60 444
GCK 059/078 060/079 059 444
EHA 059/075 060/080 060 344
LBL 063/080 061/084 060 344
HYS 058/083 061/083 059 243
P28 066/084 064/086 065 453

BURKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	47 min
Jun 15, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	61 min
Jun 15, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	45 min
Jun 15, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.