Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 16, 1997, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)

Expired

Jun 16, 1997, 6:10 PM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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.

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.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
524 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 610 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DODGE CITY                 THROUGH 540 PM CDT
  FORT DODGE                 BY 530 PM CDT
  WRIGHT                     BY 530 PM CDT

* AT 522 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF DODGE CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
  MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN BLOOM AND
  KINGSDOWN AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED F"OR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU ARE
CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

PARKIN/STOUT

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
345 PM CDT MON JUN 17 1997

FCST CHALLENGE IS SEVERE POTENIAL IN NEAR TERM AND THEN TEMPS IN LOGER
TERM.  WIDESPREAD SEVERE STMS WITH HAIL MARCHING NE ACRS CWA
ATTM...WILL GO WITH EVENING PERIOD OF SVR AND PSBL HVY RAIN SRN 2/3RDS
OF CWA...AS PER CURRENT WATCH #452.  5H SHORT WAVE BRINGING CAA
ALOFT...DESTABILIZING AMS.  PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...THUS THE
HAIL.  WE HAVE ALREADY HAD SEVERAL REPORTS OF DIME SIZE HAIL.

MDLS DO NOT HAVE A CLUE ON THIS CONVECTION...WITH NEAR TERM POPS 5-15
PERCENT.  THUS...WL HAVE TO GO WITH PERSISTENCE.  THINK SUNSET WILL
BRING AN END TO MUCH OF THE CONVECTION...WITH CURRENT STORMS MODIFYING
AIRMASS AND LOOSING SUPPORT FROM ABOVE.

AS FOR REST OF FORECAST PD...LEAVE CHC POPS IN S TUE MORNG...BUT JUST
PCLDY ELSEWHERE.  WED LOOKS TO BE FAIRLY WARM WITH PARTS OF CWA IN 90S.

.DDC...NONE.

DDC 056/083 058/088 064 43-
GCK 054/082 056/08z7 062 21-
EHA 056/082 057/088 063 72-
LBL 057/084 059/090 065 53-
HYS 055/083 055/086 063 21-
P28 059/086 063/090 067 23-

BURKE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.