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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 30, 1997Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1997, 8:01 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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: Aug 30, 1997, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 1997, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2306 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 310202 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC075-310230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
901 PM CDT (801 PM MDT) SAT AUG 30 1997


* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTH CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT (930 PM CDT)

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF NORTH CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY

* AT 758 PM MDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE MOVING NORTH AT 5 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.

JOHNSON/JOHNSON

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 Aug 30, 1:47 PM MDT, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 1:47 PM MDT, 6 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TO ADD WORD TO 1ST SENTENCE.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
247 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 1997

...A FEW POPS THE MAIN CHALLENGE THIS GO-AROUND...

LATEST SFC CHART SHOWING WEAK COLD FRONT FROM NEAR CYS...TO SOUTH OF
GRANADA...TO AROUND GCK TO HYS.  THIS IS ABOUT ON SCHEDULE FROM
29/12Z ETA RUN...MAYBE AN HOUR OR TWO SLOWER.  WOULD EXPECT THE
FRONT TO STALL OUT AROUND KS/OK BORDER TO P28 TO HUT OVER THE NEXT
FEW HOURS.  AT 18Z...ONLY SFC PRES RISES ON MAP ARE IN CENTRAL KS OF
1MB WITH SMALL AREA OF 2MB FALLS IN E/C KS.  AT 15Z...LARGE AREA OF
2MB RISES IN WESTERN KS/NE HELPED TO PUSH FRONT INTO MY AREA.
THUS...IT LOOKS LIKE FRONT IS SLOWING DOWN. WITH THAT IN
MIND...WINDS TO BE LIGHT AND VARIALBE FOR MOST PART IN SOUTHERN CWA
TONIGHT WITH NORTH TO NORTHEAST IN NORTH AND CENTRAL.

HIGHER UP...EXITING S/W TROF IN EASTERN KS HELPED TO SET OFF SOME
SHOWER ACTIVITY IN CEN KS EARLY THIS MORNING WITH A LOT OF ACCAS
OVER EASTERN CWA MOST OF DAY.  NEXT IN SERIES OF VORT MAXES ROTATING
AROUND UPPER HIGH CURRENTLY IN EASTERN UT/WESTERN CO WITH SECOND ONE
IN NW AZ.  THESE TO (PERHAPS) INFLUENCE OUR WEATHER SUNDAY INTO
MONDAY.

HAVENT STRAYED TOO MUCH FROM GUIDANCE/PERSISTANCE/PREVIOUS FORECAST
TEMPS. ONLY A TINY-BIT OF CAA AT SFC TONIGHT...THEN PROGS SHOW
SLIGHT WAA AT 80H REST OF PERIOD AS FRONT WORKS ITS WAY BACK NE AS
WARM FRONT. AFOREMENTIONED VORT MAXES TO MOVE INTO EASTERN
CO/WESTERN KS OVERNIGHT...THUS SCT POPS EXTREME WEST FOR TONIGHT
...SCT POPS MOST AREAS SUNDAY.  2ND VORT MAX TO MOVE OVER AREA SUN
NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING.  OF COURSE EXACT TRACK/TIMING DIFFICULT
TO PIN DOWN AND MODELS HAVING USUAL DIFFICULTIES IN AGREEING ON
TIMING/POSITION.SO...WITH LACK OF STRONG SFC CONVERGENCE AND
UNIMPRESSIVE SFC/80H MOISTURE...WILL ONLY GO WITH WDLY SCT POPS ON
SUN NIGHT/MONDAY.

EXTENDED FOR TUES. LOOKS TO BE DRY/WARM PER THE AVN...AND WITH
POTENTIAL FRONT ENTERING AREA ON WED AND HANGING AROUND WITH SOME
UPSLOPE ON THURS...WILL GO WITH GOING WED FCST ON WED AND THURS.

.DDC...NONE.

DDC 066/093 067/093 066 122
GCK 064/094 065/094 066 133
HYS 065/090 066/093 067 122
EHA 066/094 065/094 065 233
LBL 067/094 066/095 067 133
P28 069/093 070/095 070 122

SEARCY

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.