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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1997, 6:51 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 4 reports 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
- May 1, 1997, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1997, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:53 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Jetmore, KS | |
| May 1, 6:53 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Jetmore, KS | |
| May 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Jetmore, KS | |
| May 1, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hanston, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 35 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
125 WUUS1 KDDC 012353 RRA SVRDDC KSC083-020040- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 651 PM CDT THU MAY 1 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 740 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED GRAY BY 655 PM CDT * AT 648 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAY MOVING EAST AT 40 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REITER/CICCONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 48 min |
| May 1, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 45 min |
| May 1, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 62 min |
| May 1, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 63 min |
| May 1, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 63 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.