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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 16, 1997Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 6:43 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 16, 1997, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 16, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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.

927 
WUUS1 KDDC 162344 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC033-170030-

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF COMANCHE COUNTY

* AT 641 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER MOVING EAST AT 5 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/STOUT

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 16, 3:43 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:43 PM CDT, 3 hours before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DODGE CITY KS
617 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0230 PM    10 S ULYSSES              KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   GRANT

0427 PM    2 E HARDTNER              KS   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   BARBER

PARKIN

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:18 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DODGE CITY KS
617 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0230 PM    10 S ULYSSES              KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   GRANT

0427 PM    2 E HARDTNER              KS   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   BARBER

PARKIN

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FIRST LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DODGE CITY KS
620 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0230 PM    14 NE ULYSSES              KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   GRANT

0427 PM    2 E HARDTNER              KS   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   BARBER

PARKIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	45 min
Jun 15, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	46 min
Jun 15, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	47 min
Jun 15, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	45 min
Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	45 min
Jun 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	45 min
Jun 15, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	45 min
Jun 15, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	45 min
Jun 15, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	49 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	48 min
Jun 15, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	59 min
Jun 15, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	31 min
Jun 15, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	46 min
Jun 15, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	33 min
Jun 15, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
Jun 16, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	35 min
Jun 16, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	34 min
Jun 16, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	32 min
Jun 16, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	46 min
Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	46 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.