Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 16, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)

Expired

May 16, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Morton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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
602 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
  WESTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 650 PM CDT
 
* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY.

* AT 559 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FETERITA MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES 6
MILES NORTHWEST OF FETERITA NEAR THE MORTON/STEVENS COUNTY LINE.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCEStS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...AS WELL
ASVERY HEAVY RAIN IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

RUTHI/MCAVOY

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 16, 4:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
405 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997

...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS CHANCE FOR TSTMS...

18Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED DRY LINE ACROSS EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS FROM
JUST SOUTHEAST OF GLD TO NEAR SYRACUSE. AT 20Z IR AND VISIBLE SATELLITE
INDICATING STORMS BEGINNING TO FIRE JUST ALONG DRY LINE FROM NEAR
HYS...WAKEENEY SOUTHWEST TO LIBERAL. WATCHBOX HAS JUST BEEN ISSUED FOR
MUCH OF CWA AS EXPECTING ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AS DRY LINE MOVES EAST. HAD 20-30 POP GOING THIS EVENING ALL
AREAS WITH MENTION OF SEVERE. EXPECTING ACTIVITY TO DIE LATER THIS
EVENING WITH LOSS OF HEATING AND NVA MOVING IN FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT.
PRETTY MUCH STUCK CLOSE TO GUIDANCE ON TEMPS TONIGHT AS THEY WERE IN
BALLPARK LAST NIGHT AND SAW NO GLARING ERROR IN THEM.

SATURDAY...EXPECTING ANOTHER ROUND OF TSRA...POSSIBLE SEVERE...LATE
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT AS BETTER S/W MOVES OVER CWA IN THE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WITH REASTABLISHMENT OF DRY TROUGH ACROSS EXTREME WESTERN
KANSAS. KEPT A POP IN AT NIGHT THINKING THAT A 2ND S/W WILL SUPPORT A
SLIGHT EAST MOVEMENT OF DRY LINE THROUGH THE NIGHT. MODELS NOT TERRIBLY
DIFFERENT IN THIS SFC SCENARIO BUT DID PREFER SLIGHTLY SLOWER ETA.
WITH DECENT SFC LOW DEVELOPING ACROSS NRN KS WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE ON
TEMPS AT NIGHT. FOR TEMPS DURING DAY KEPT A RANGE FROM JUST BELOW
GUIDANCE TO JUST ABOVE BASED ON TEMPS ATTM.

SUNDAY...CONTINUED A 30 POP TSRA AS DRY TROUGH STILL IN CWA WITH DECENT
INSTABILITY...ESPECIALLY EAST. GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE IN BALLPARK.
EXPECTING BREEZY CONDITIONS WITH DEPARTING SFC LOW.

.DDC...NONE.

DDC 056/087 058/086 052 323
GCK 055/087 057/086 051 323
EHA 057/089 05v9/086 054 323
LBL 056/088 057/086 052 323
HYS 055/088 057/086 052 323
P28 059/088 061/088 055 323

CICCONE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.