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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 24, 1997Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1997, 7:49 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 24, 1997, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1997, 8:20 PM CDT
In force: 31 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 00:48 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
Jun 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Trego Center, KS	Hail lasted 15 minutes and covered the ground. Ninety percent of the wheat was destroyed. Farmers in the area had expected the yield on the wheat to be the best ever, before the hail hit.
Jun 24, 7:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Trego Center, 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
Jun 24, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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.

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: 3202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 250049 RRA
TORDDC
KSC195-250120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
749 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 820 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CEDAR BLUFF RESERVIOR               BY 755 PM CDT

* AT 746 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR BLUFF DAM MOVING SOUTH AT 10
  MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A
BASEMENT.  IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO THE AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE

PARKIN/STOUT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	62 min
Jun 24, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	48 min
Jun 24, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	49 min
Jun 24, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	47 min
Jun 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	48 min
Jun 24, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	46 min
Jun 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	4 hr
Jun 24, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	62 min
Jun 24, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	31 min
Jun 24, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	62 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.