Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 23, 1998, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)

Expired

Jun 23, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ellis County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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
541 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CATHERINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CATHERINE                    BY 545 PM CDT
  EMMERAM                      BY 550 PM CDT
  VICTORIA                     BY 545 PM CDT

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.

LEE/CICCONE

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 23, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
250 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998

...FORECAST CHALLENGE IS HIGH TEMPS AND CHANCE POPS TNGT...

WILL USE ETA MODEL AS IT APPEARS BEST IN ITS PLACEMENT OF THERMAL
FIELDS. SOME TSTMS MAY FORM ALONG AND EAST OF DRY LINE AS STG H5
WAVE MOVS ACROSS ERN PART OF CWA THIS EVE. BEST AREA WOULD BE P28
IF THEY CAN BREAK THE CAP OTHERWISE FCST H7 TEMPS OF 16C ELSEWHERE
TO HOLD CNVTN AND WILL GO WITH DRY FCST TNGT AND 20 POP EAST. GUID
AND PVS SHIFT TEMPS LOOK GOOD TNGT.

WED AGAIN STG H7 THERMAL CAP FCST WITH TEMPS FROM 14 TO 16C SO
EVEN WITH SOME MINOR SHRTWV MOVG ACROSS CAP SHLD HOLD. ALSO MAIN
THETA-E AXIS SHIFTS EAST. CHALLENGE IS HOW WARM CAN WE GET WITH
H8 TEMPS FROM 32 TO 35C. WILL GO WITH ABOUT A CAT ABOVE FWC GUID
WHICH IS MORE IN LINE WITH ETA. ALSO ANOTHER WINDY DAY EAST OF
TROF AXIS.

ON WED NIGHT ERN CWA MAY BUBBLE UP A TSTM AGAIN IN THETA-E AXIS
AND WILL CARRY A 20 POP. OTHERWISE OVNGT LOWS FROM 68 TO 72.

FOR THURSDAY THE HEAT CONT WITH FCST H8 TEMPS FROM 33 TO 35C AND
H7 TEMPS FROM 17 TO 19C. THIS CAP SHLD BE VERY HARD TO BREAK SO
WILL GO DRY AND HOT. SFC TEMPS PROJECTED FROM ETA TO BE 102 TO
106 ACROSS THE AREA WHICH IS AGAIN ABOVE GUID OVER A CATEGORY.

.DDC...NONE

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

DDC 067/101 068/103 073 000
GCK 064/101 067/102 072 001
EHA 065/105 067/106 068 002
LBL 066/104 067/104 069 001
HYS 065/100 068/103 071 111
P28 074/103 073/104 076 212

KRUSE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.