Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jun 24, 1998, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)

Expired

Jun 24, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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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KSC057-069-083-250230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
846 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
  EASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
  HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 839 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF
  JETMORE SOUTHWEST TO CIMARRON. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO
  THE EAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  JETMORE                      BY 847 PM CDT
  HANSTON                      BY 850 PM CDT
  GRAY                         BY 855 PM CDT
  HOWELL                       BY 900 PM CDT

* THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUS
  IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY.

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 IMJMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

BELL/CICCONE

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 2:34 PM CDT, 6 hours 12 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
234 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

TEMPS SHOULD REACH ABOUT 105 THIS AFTERNOON.  DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO
DROP WITH ABOUT 45 AT EHA AND 50 AT DDC.  WITH LOW DEWPOINTS HEAT
INDEX SHOULD BE A COUPLE OF DEGREES BELOW AIR TEMP.  MAIN QUESTION
FOR THIS EVENING WILL BE WHAT SFC WINDS WILL DO AND WHETHER OR NOT
ANY GOOD CONVERGENCE CAN DEVELOP WITH DRY LINE.  IE. TSRA OR NOT.

SFC WINDS IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BACKING SOME WITH PRESSURE FALLS.
WILL NOT KNOW TILL EARLY EVENING WHEN WINDS AROUND OUR CWA WILL BACK
AS WELL IN RESPONSE.  WILL PROBABLY GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FROM
ABOUT HYS TO P28 FOR EARLY EVENING TSRA.  DO NOT THINK WE WILL HAVE
MUCH CHANCE ONCE TEMPS START TO FALL TOWARD 23Z AS WE HAVE QUITE A
STRONG CAP.  THINK WE WILL BE IN A SIMILAR SITUATION THURSDAY AS DRY
LINE SHOULD REDEVELOP WEST A BIT AS INDICATED BY MODELS AND EXPECT
CAP TO BE QUITE STRONG AGAIN.  MODELS BRING WEAK S/W ACROSS CWA LATE
TONIGHT.  COULD SEE SOME ACC IN THE EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.  WILL
LEAVE OUT MENTION OF PCPN FOR THURSDAY-FRIDAY.

WITH VERY WARM MID LEVELS...TEMPS MAIN CONCERN.  WILL BE CLOSE TO
ADVISORY CRITERIA THURSDAY-FRIDAY.  BEST CHANCE TO REACH
105+(APPARENT TEMP) WILL BE FAR EASTERN AREAS.  FOR NOW WILL LEAVE
IT TO THE MID SHIFT TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO ABOUT AN ADVISORY AS THE
SITUATION APPEARS MARGINAL ATTM.

.DDC...NONE

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

DDC 073/105 072/103 073 000
GCK 069/104 068/103 068 000
EHA 065/104 065/103 066 000
LBL 066/104 066/103 066 000
HYS 075/106 074/103 073 200
P28 075/105 075/103 074 100

REITER

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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.