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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 11, 1998Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1998, 12:22 AM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 1998, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 1998, 1:10 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kearny County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1248 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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

320 
WUUS1 KDDC 110521 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC093-110610-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1222 AM CDT TUE AUG 11 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 110 AM CDT

* AT 1220 AM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKIN MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN KEARNY 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.

GERARD/MCAVOY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade47 min

Nearby

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

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.