Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 28, 1998, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)

Expired

Jul 28, 1998, 7:35 PM CDT

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
701 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 735 PM CDT

* AT 659 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF FORD OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT
  DODGE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL STAY SOUTH OF DODGE
  CITY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN FORD 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 IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

PARKIN/MCAVOY

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
253 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 1998

...FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE POPS TONIGHT AND FRONTAL PLACEMENT
   TMRW...

COLD FRONT MOVG SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL NB AND S WY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
AND SHLD CONT ITS SOUTHWARD MOVMT INTO SWRN KS OVERNGT. JUST WHERE
IT WILL BE BY 12Z WED IS ANYBODYS GUESS. IF GOOD AREA OF CNVCTN
FIRES ALONG IT SOUTHWARD MVMNT WILL BE FASTER. ALSO WEAK SHRTWV
SHOWING UP IN NERN CO ATTM WITH WEAK SFC LOW FORMING N OF SYRACUSE
IS CAUSING SOME BACKING OF SFC WINDS. SOME CONVERG FORMING AHD OF
WAVE AND TROF FIRING SOME TSTMS ALSO ATTM IN N CWA. WITH VORT AND
CURRENT TSTMS IN NORTH WILL CARRY BEST POPS THAT AREA WITH 40 PCT
AND 20 TO 30 PCT ELSEWHERE. FOR TEMPS WILL NOT STRAY FROM
PERSISTENCE.

ON WED NGM IS ODD MAN OUT ON COLD FRONTAL PLACEMENT AND WILL USE
AVN/ETA SFC WHICH IS MORE SOUTH. WILL GUESS FRONT TO END UP
GENERALLY FROM MEADE TO LAKIN WITH SERLY UPSLOPE IN THE EAST AND
SOUTH WINDS IN THE WEST CWA. TEMPS WILL BE ADJ TO FIT AND WILL GO
AROUND 92 WEST AND 85 TO 90 EAST. WITH FRONTAL BNDRY CONVERG AND
ANOTHER WAVE BY AVN WILL CONT 30 POPS ACROSS THE BOARD.

ON WED NIGHT AND THURS AGAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY HARD TO GUESS WHERE IT
WILL BE. WITH CONT OF VORTS AND CONVERG ON BOUNDARYS WILL KEEP SOME
POPS GOING FROM 20 TO 30 PCT WITH 40 IN THE NORTH WHERE BEST PVA IS
AND DEEP LAYER MSTR FOR WED NIGHT. AVN HAS STRONGEST VORT AND WILL
USE. VORT THEN MOVS EAST BY 12Z THURS WITH NVA BEHIND IT AND WILL
NOT GO WITH ANY POPS ON THURS. NERLY UPSLOPE FLOW MAY LEAD TO LOTS
OF CLOUDS OR STRATUS.

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

DDC 067/089 067/086 067 233
GCK 065/090 066/086 067 233
EHA 064/092 066/089 067 232
LBL 065/092 067/090 067 232
HYS 066/087 065/084 067 434
P28 072/090 072/092 070 332

.DDC...NONE

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.