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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 5, 1997Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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
Jul 5, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 7:50 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 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 052347 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC057-060050-

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 750 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HOWELL                     BY 645 PM CDT
  DODGE CITY                 BY 700 PM CDT
  FORT DODGE                 BY 710 PM CDT

* AT 645 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF HOWELL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR 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.

NICHOLS/MCAVOY

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 Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton46 min
Jul 5, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton45 min
Jul 5, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton60 min
Jul 5, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott50 min
Jul 5, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCScott46 min
Jul 5, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego48 min
Jul 5, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton48 min
Jul 5, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott45 min
Jul 5, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney49 min
Jul 5, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton49 min
Jul 5, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess46 min
Jul 5, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray47 min
Jul 5, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney32 min
Jul 5, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman48 min
Jul 5, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess31 min
Jul 5, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens49 min
Jul 5, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.