Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 15, 1997, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)

Expired

Jul 15, 1997, 4:30 AM CDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Comanche County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
355 AM CDT TUE JUL 15 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY

* AT 353 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES EAST OF BUTTERMILK MOVING EAST AT 10 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.

D.STEINMETZ/CICCONE

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 3:12 PM CDT, 12 hours 43 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
310 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1997

FCST PRBLM WILL BE CHC FOR TSTMS XTRM SWRN CRNR THS EVE AND PSBL ROUND
OF CNVTN AGAIN LTR TNGT INTO TUE.

1K VIS LOOP SHOWING NICE CNVCTVLY INDUCED VORT MAX VCNTY HYS/RSL AND
MOVING SE.  RMNTS OF MRNG SHWRS/TSTMS FINALLY MOVING EAST OUT OF CWA
ATTM.  18Z SFC ANLYS SHOWED FNTL BNDRY FRM CNTRL OK THRU NRN TX/OK
PNHNDLS INTO SERN CO.  SHORT FUSE COMPOSITE SHOWING GOOD MOCON TO THE
SOUTH OF EHA WITH BEST SFC BASED LI'S ACROSS THAT AREA.

12Z DDC SOUNDING MODIFIED PER UA ANLYS THIS MRNG TENDED TO STABILIZE
THE ATMS OVER SWRN KS...ESP AFTER THRML TROF OF THS MRNG MOVES EAST OUT
OF AREA.  THIS SHOULD KEEP THINGS FAIRLY QUIET AROSS AREA THIS EVE. AM
A LITTLE CONCRND ABOUT XTRM SWRN CRNR OF CWA CLOSEST TO FNTL BNDRY
THOUGH.

FOCUS THEN SHIFTS TWRD LATER TNGT AS NEXT WK S/W RIDING OVER UPPR RIDGE
APPCHS AREA FROM WEST.  GRIDDED MODEL DATA INDICATE H5 CAA DVLPG AGAIN
LATER TNGT AS SYSTEM APPCHS.  SFC BNDRY LIFTS NORTH AHEAD OF THIS SYS AS
WELL AS MODELS SHOW THTA-E AXIS ADVTNG NORTH INTO CWA.

WILL GO WITH AROUND 30 PERCENT POPS FOR LATER TNGT FOR WRN 2/3DS OF
AREA WITH A 20 PERCENT CHC IN ERN SCTNS...WITH WORDING FOR TIMING OF
STRMS.

MODELS SHOW AREA TO CONT TO DESTABLIZE ON TUE AS UPPR LVL CAA CONTS AND
LOW LVL THTA-E RIDGE CONTS ITS THRUST INTO AREA.  MODEL LIFTED INDICIES
FCST TO BE AS LOW AS -8 BY TUE AFTN OVR PTNS OF CWA.

MODELS CONT TREND OF UPPR LVL RIDGE STRENTHENING AS WEEK PROGRESSES SO
WILL CONT TREND OF WRMR TMPS IN XTNDD PD.

.DDC...NONE

DDC 064/093 068/097 070 332
GCK 062/092 066/096 068 322
EHA 064/097 065/099 069 322
LBL 066/096 067/099 070 322
HYS 066/095 070/100 071 332
P28 073/096 074/101 075 222

GERARD

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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.