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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1997, 4:09 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- May 25, 1997, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1997, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 25, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Wakeeney, KS | |
| May 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Wakeeney, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 25, 2:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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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, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 35 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, 4:19 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 |
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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.