Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 5, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)

Expired

Jul 5, 1997, 4:00 PM MDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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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SVRDDC
KSC075-187-052200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
415 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
  STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT (500 PM CDT)
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF STANTON AND SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY

* AT 313 PM MDT (413 PM CDT)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON OR 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MANTER MOVING EAST AT 15 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.

NICHOLS/MCAVOY

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 5, 2:54 PM MDT, 21 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
353 PM CDT SAT JUL 05 1997

...FORECAST CHALLENGE IS SVR WX CHANCES AND PSBLY HEAVY RAIN...

88D ATTM SHOWG SQUALL LINE OF TRSA SOME SVR READY TO POUNCE INTO CWA
FROM THE NW. WILL GO WITH LIKELY TO CAT POPS EXCEPT FOR FAR SERN
CWA. LLVL JET FEEDING GOOD DEWPTS INTO WARM SECTOR. WITH SLOW MVMT
OF TSTMS HAVE ALSO ADDED LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL INTO ZONE.

TSTMS SHOULD END NORTH TO SOUTH LATER TNGT AND PUSH SOUTH INTO TX
PAN AND OKLAHOMA.

FOR TMRW ATM RECOVERS RAPIDLY AS PSR FALLS IN LEE OF ROCKIES IN
ADVANCE OF NEXT SYSTEM. COLD FRONT FCST TO PUSH BACK AS WARM FRONT
WITH GOOD H85 WAA. WINDS ALSO GUSTY TO 15 TO 25 MPH ESP WEST.
AS FOR TEMPS WENT COOLER THAN FWC AND MORE TOWARD FAN GUID.

AGREE WITH SPC ON PSBL MCS FIRING SUNDAY NIGHT COMING IN FROM THE NW
SO WILL CONT WITH 40 TO 50 POPS FOR NOW. NW FLOW AND WEAK RIDGE
CONDUCIVE FOR THIS DVLPMT. LOW LVL JET TO AGAIN FEED MCS.

DDC 060/086 065/087 063 714
GCK 060/087 062/087 062 714
EHA 060/089 063/090 063 8-4
LBL 059/088 063/089 063 8-4
HYS 060/084 063/086 061 7-5
P28 063/086 067/089 065 5-3

KRUSE

In the hours before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-060600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1121 AM CDT FRI JUL 04 1997

...STORM SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO
   THE EVENING...

SYNOPSIS:  A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT GULF MOISTURE IS
RETURNING. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS SOME SEVERE WILL LIKELY DEVELOP
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN
ALMOST ANYWHERE IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT
WILL BE LARGE HAIL.

KRUSE

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.