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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 1997Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1997, 7:35 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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: May 24, 1997, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1997, 8:10 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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
May 24, 7:37 PM CDT	Hail 1	Scott City, KS

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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1088 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

602 
WUUS1 KDDC 250037 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC171-250110-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
735 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 810 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SCOTT CITY                 BY 750 PM CDT

* AT 733 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY MOVING NORTH AT 10
  MPH.

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH AND WIND
SPEEDS GREATER THAN 55 MPH.  TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND
YOUR PROPERTY.  MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PARKIN/KRUSE

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 May 24, 3:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
332 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997

NOT MUCH TIME FOR DISC TDY DUE MANY HEADLINES AND SHORT STAFFING. IN
SHORT TERM MAIN QSTN IS XTNT AND TYPE CNVCTN TNGT.  PER DISC W SPC
STORMS FIRING OVER SE COLO AND PNHNDLS WL REACH XTRM SW ZNS SHORTLY
WHILE SFC BNDRY E/W THRU DDC ALSO STARTING TO FIRE UP.  LKG AT WND
FIELDS AND HIGH CAPES XPCT MAIN THREAT WL BE HAIL...WINDS AND
TORRENTIAL RAINS AS THE CLUSTER TYPE CNVCTN TURNS MCS N OF THE SFC
BNDRY LATE TNGT.  END RESULT IS FFW N OF THE SFC BNDRY IN THOSE ZONES
WHERE FFG IS GENERALLY AOB 3 INCHES.  COORD WITH SPC ON SVR TSTM W IN
MY SW ZNS.

IN LTR PDS GENERALLY FOLLOWED ETA.  TSTMS AND MCS TNGT WL DEEPEN
BNDRY LYR COLD DOME WITH RAIN COOLING AND CONSIDERABLE MSTR THUS SFC
LOW MOVG OUT OF COLO SHD STAY MUCH FARTHER SOUTH THAN NGM SLTN. AVN
IS A COMPROMISE POSITIONING, BUT I DOUBT EVEN ETA HAS ADJUSTED ENUF
FOR THE RAIN COOLING...ETC SO WL CONSIDERABLY UNDERCUT FWC NUMBERS
FOR HIGH TEMPS THRU MEMORIAL DAY. WL ALSO HV TO BRING IN LOTS MORE
CLOUD AND BETTER CHCS FOR PCPN.  AVN H5 FEATURES LOOK BEST FOR LTR
PDS THUS WITH COLD AIR IN PLACE IN BNDRY LYR...W TO SW FLOW ALOFT
...LOTS OF LIFT AND MSTR WL GO WITH CLOUDY AND COOL SUN NGT AND MON
AND PCPN SHD BE MAINLY OVRRNG RAIN.

.DDC...FFW 030-031-043>046-063-064.
       SVR TSTM WTCH 061>068-074>078-084>088.

DDC 058/077 052/077 052 742
GCK 057/076 050/076 050 742
EHA 058/078 054/078 054 420
LBL 060/079 055/079 055 420
HYS 056/074 056/074 053 853
P28 063/080 056/080 055 532

JOHNSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 minute before

KSZ061>064-074>078-084>088-250300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
735 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 314 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST
KANSAS...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE WATCH:
HAMILTON...STANTON...MORTON...KEARNY...GRANT...STEVENS...FINNEY...
HASKELL...SEWARD...GRAY...MEADE...HODGEMAN...FORD...CLARK.

CICCONE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	31 min
May 24, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	62 min
May 24, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	32 min
May 24, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	33 min
May 25, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	61 min
May 25, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	31 min
May 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney	29 min
May 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane	29 min
May 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis	30 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	46 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis	34 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	47 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis	32 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.