Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Aug 20, 1997, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)

Expired

Aug 20, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Haskell County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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
754 PM CDT WED AUG 20 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SUBLETTE                   BY 830 PM CDT

* AT 753 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF SUBLETTE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...EXPECT WINDS OF
55 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.

STOUT/MCAVOY

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 20, 2:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
225 PM CDT WED AUG 20 1997

PLENTY OF FORECAST CHALLENGES THIS VERSION.

MOST OF TSRA MOVING INTO OK.  TSRA MOVED ALONG 850 FRONT AS S/W MOVED
THROUGH. STORMS SHOULD PUSH THE SFC BOUNDARY FURTHER WEST THAN CURRENT
MODELS ARE SUGGESTING. CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP SOUTH OF DDC. SO
QUESION FOR TONIGHT WILL BE TSRA CHANCES FOR REMAINDER OF CWA.

INSTABILITY AXIS THROUGH DDC-NW.  APPEARS THAT TSRA WILL CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WEST-SOUTHWEST OF DDC.  ADAP PRODUCTS
SHOW BEST MOISTURE CONVERGANCE ALONG CO-KS BORDER ATTM.  BEST CHANCES
FOR TRSA OVER FOR SOUTH-SOUTHWEST AREAS FOR EARLY TONIGHT.  NEXT S/W
COMES DOWN NW FLOW LATER TONIGHT...SO NORTHERN AREAS MAY NOT SEE TSRA
UNTIL LATE.  MAY PUT HIGHER POPS WEST FOR TONIGHT AND USE LATE WORDING
FOR NORTHEAST-EAST ZONES WITH POSSIBLY SEVERE WORDING. LOOKS LIKE
BOUNDAY MAY HANG AROUND NEXT 48 HOURS.  THIS AND THE FACT THAT SFC FLW
WILL BE SOUTHEAST...DEWPOINTS SHOULD STAY UP. WILL HAVE SOME MENTION OF
POPS IN ALL PERIODS HOWEVER.  WILL MAKE LAST MOMENT DECESION ON
NUMBERS.

TEMPS MAY BE TRICKY.  WITH ESE UPSLOPE FLOW AND DEWPOINTS ABOVE FWC
PROGS...LOWS (EASTERN CWA ANYWAY) MAY STAY ABOVE FWC TEMPS.  WITH FRONT
PUSHED BACK WEST...UPSLOPE FLOW SHOULD OCCUR AND WITH LOTS OF MOISTURE
AROUND...TEMPS SHOULD BE COOLER THAN FWC NUMBERS AND WILL GO CLOSER TO
AVN WHICH MAY BE A BIT WARM AS WELL.  SO...EXPECT SLIGHTY HIGHER
LOWS.

.DDC...NONE

DDC 066/089 066/088 064 322
GCK 064/091 063/089 062 222
EHA 063/092 063/090 062 222
LBL 063/091 064/089 062 222
HYS 064/084 064/087 063 333
P28 068/087 069/091 067 233

REITER

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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.