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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 30, 1998Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 10:43 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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 30, 1998, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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 30, 10:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Meade, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

051 
WUUS1 KDDC 010342
SVRDDC
KSC119-010445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1043 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1041 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE
  STATE PARK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF MEADE COUNTY

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.

KRUSE/REITER

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 Jun 30, 1:51 PM CDT, 8 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 1:51 PM CDT, 8 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
151 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1998

...SHORT TERM...
MAIN QSTN TNGT IS POPS ANBD TEMPS.  ELEVATED BAROCLINIC ZN SET UP
ACRS MY FA SHD SHOW LTL MOVEMENT TNGT WITH UPSLOPE FLOW AGAINST HIER
TERRAIN OF COLORADO DUE TO PRODUCE ANOTHER MCS WHICH SHD TRACK SE
DOWN THE BAROCLINIC ZN ACRS MY ZNS.  MDLS AGREE ON THIS WITH
EXCEPTION THAT THEY SHOW USUAL BIAS FOR MOVG THE FNT AND BAROCLINIC
ZN BACK TO THE NORTHEAST TOO FAR AND TOO FAST.  MOST AREAS WILL SEE
RAIN IN THE BUCKET THUS WILL GO WELL ABV MOS FOR POPS AND WITH HIGH
DWPTS WILL ALSO CONTINUE MNTN OF PSBL LCLY HVY RAINS.  FWC TEMPS
LOOK FAIRLY GOOD BUT WL UNDERCUT THEM JUST A TOUCH FOR EVAPORATIVE
COOLING IN COOL AIRMASS.

...LONG TERM...
WYSIWYG. THO MDLS PUSH BAROCLINIC ZN OFF TO THE NE WITH TIME HARD TO
SEE HOW THIS WL HAPPEN AS CONTD CHCS FOR PCPN FALLING INTO THE COLD
AIR EACH AFTN AND EVE SHD CONT TO REINFORCE THE COLD AIR DOME AND
THUS KEEP THE FRONT ND BAROCLINIC ZN FARTHER S INCREASING THE DAILY
AND NIGHTLY RISK FOR PCPN.  WL GO SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR
POPS EACH DAY AND OVRNGT AND A CATEGORY BLO GUIDANCE FOR HIGH TEMPS.
MOS LOOKS RSNBL FOR OVRNGT LOWS WITH ONLY MINOR TWEEKS NEEDED.
.JOHNSON

...EXTENDED...
TODAYS EXTENDED MODELS ARE STARTING TO SHOW AN INCREASE TO THE
MONSOONAL FLOW OVER THE CWA FOR THE WEEKEND PERIOD. ALSO...THIS
MORNINGS 12Z AVN AND LAST NIGHTS MRF ARE HINTING AT SOME SORT OF
TROPICAL DISTURBANCE TRYING TO NOSE ITS WAY UP CENTRAL TEXAS DURING
FRIDAY/SATURDAY. IF THAT DISTURBANCE CAN GET CAUGHT UP IN THE
ADVERTISED SOUTHWEST FLOW...THEN A CHANCE FOR PCPN FOR THE WEEKEND
SEEMS VERY REASONABLE. LOWS AND HIGHS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WILL BE
LOWERED SLIGHTLY GIVEN THIS SCENARIO.
.MCCAMMON

.DDC...NONE

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

DDC 064/088 067/090 067 864
GCK 063/089 065/092 065 864
EHA 065/091 066/094 066 663
LBL 066/090 068/095 068 663
HYS 062/086 066/087 066 545
P28 068/092 071/092 072 886

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	61 min
Jun 30, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	62 min
Jul 1, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	61 min
Jul 1, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	48 min
Jul 1, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	32 min

Nearby

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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.