Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 14, 1998, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)

Expired

Jun 14, 1998, 8:35 PM CDT

In force

33 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Stevens County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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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KSC189-150135-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
802 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 835 PM CDT

* AT 759 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOSCOW MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MOSCOW                       BY 815 PM CDT
  CAVE                         BY 815 PM CDT
  WOODS                        BY 830 PM CDT

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.

D.STEINMETZ/MCCAMMON

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 2:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
209 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

...SHORT TERM...
QSTN FOR TNGT IS CHCS FOR CNVCTN AND TEMPS.  FAIRLY VIGOROUS UPSTRM
SYS INITIALIZED BEST ON NGM AT H5 BUT ALL MDLS STRUGGLING WITH LOW
LVL COLD AIR OVR HI PLNS RGN.  HIER LVL CU/SC FIELDS NOW OVR COLO
INDICATE THERE WILL BE AT LEAST SOME ELEVATED MSTR FOR THE S/W TO
WORK.  TEMPS OVR THE COLD DOME A REAL POSER THO.  MDLS SUGGEST BEST
LOCATION TO BE MY SW ZNS INTO SE COLO AND THIS MAKES SENSE AS
WARMEST TEMPS WL BE THERE BY EVE.  MRNG H8 ANALS INDICATE ANOTHER
SLUG OF LO LVL COLD AIR TO SURGE IN WITH THIS SYS THUS WILL UNDERCUT
MOS NUMBERS IN ALL BUT MY SW ZNS WHERE CLOUD COVER MOST OF THE NIGHT
MAY KEEP TEMPS CLOSER TO GUIDANCE NUMBERS.

...LONG TERM...
FOR MON AREA OF CLOUDS AND RASH/TSTMS OVR SW ZNS SHD MOVE OFF TO THE
SE AS SECONDARY COLD SURGE DEEPENS THE COLD DOME.  ANOTHER VORT LOBE
TO SWING SOUTH OUT OF NEBR AND BRING CLOUDS AND SML CHC PCPN TO MY
NRN ZNS IN THE AFTN.  FAIRLY STIFF GRADIENT THRU MUCH OF THE DAY DUE
TO CAA BHND SECONDARY COLD SURGE THUS WL STICK WITH MOS FCSTS FOR
WINDS BUT WL UNDERCUT TEMPS DUE TO MDLS UNDERESTIMATION OF CAA.

MON NGT SHD SEE RGN UNDER INFLUENCE OF S/W RDG ALOFT WITH NEW LEE
LOW DVLPG IN COLO ON TUES IN RESPONSE TO NEXT UPSTRM SYSTEM.  MOS
PICKS UP TEMPS FAIRLY WELL MOST AREAS BUT WILL GO A LTL ABV FWC FOR
HIGHS IN SW ZNS TUES AS RETURN TO S-SW FLOW SETS UP THAT AREA EARLY
ON TUES.

.DDC...NONE

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY.  OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE TOPZFPDDC.

DDC 052/077 051/080 060 200
GCK 050/075 050/082 058 200
EHA 052/079 048/086 088 310
LBL 052/079 049/085 089 310
HYS 052/074 052/080 062 122
P28 057/078 053/080 065 11-

JOHNSON

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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.