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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 1997Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 5:54 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 1997, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1997, 6:55 PM CDT
In force: 61 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 22:57 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 6:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Elkhart, KS

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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: 1693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

308 
WUUS1 KDDC 292255 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC129-292355-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
554 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 655 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ELKHART                    BY 620 PM CDT
  WILBURTON                  BY 635 PM CDT
  ROLLA                      BY 645 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...EXPECT WINDS OF
65 MPH OR GREATER...HAIL LARGER THAN ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND
TORRENTIAL RAIN.  SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.  HEAVY RAIN CAN FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY.  YOU SHOULD NEVER TRY
TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS.

SEARCY/KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 4:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	48 min
Jun 29, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	48 min
Jun 29, 5:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	46 min
Jun 29, 8:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	33 min
Jun 29, 9:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	47 min

Nearby

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

Sources

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.