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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1997, 12:42 AM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- Aug 22, 1997, 12:42 AM CDT (05:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 12:50 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Pratt, KS | |
| Aug 22, 12:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Pratt, KS | 2 inch tree limbs blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 3676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.0
- Supercell composite
- 21.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 220543 RRA SVRDDC KSC151-220630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1242 AM CDT FRI AUG 22 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED CULLISON BY 1245 AM CDT PRATT BY 1245 AM CDT PRATT COUNTY LAKE BY 1245 AM CDT CAIRO BY 1245 AM CDT SAWYER BY 100 AM CDT * AT 1240 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF CULLISON MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...EXPECT WINDS OF< 75 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. MCAVOY/STOUT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 62 min |
| Aug 21, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 59 min |
| Aug 21, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 59 min |
| Aug 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 50 min |
| Aug 22, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 56 min |
| Aug 22, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.