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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 356, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 28, 1998Finney County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1998, 5:29 PM CDT for Finney County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports 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: Sep 28, 1998, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Finney County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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
Sep 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Satanta, KS
Sep 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Satanta, KS
Sep 28, 6:01 PM CDT	Hail 1	Garden City, KS
Sep 28, 6:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Pierceville, 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 1456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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.

922 
WUUS1 KDDC 282230 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC055-081-282315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
529 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 527 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLYMELL OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF SATANTA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF NORTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTY
  PLYMELL                        BY 610 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.

PARKIN/KRUSE

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 Sep 28, 2:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 2:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
210 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

...SHORT TERM...
PER MRNG RAOB AIRMASS CONTS TO DESTABLIZE WITH LIS LIKELY TO BE IN
THE -5 TO -7 RANGE BY LATE AFTN.  SOME DOUBT ABOUT UPSTRM ENERGY
ALOFT BUT WITH CU DVLPG RAPIDLY ACRS THE NM MOUNTAINS ATTM XPCT AT
LEAST SOME MID TO UPR LVL CAA THIS EVE.  SFC DATA SHWG WK CNVGNC
BNDRY ACRS MY ZNS AND WL THUS PLAY SOME ISOLD EVE TSTMS.  FAR WRN
ZNS COULD ALSO SEE AN ISOLD STORM DRIFT IN FM THE ROCKIES LATER TNGT
IF CNVCTN ALG THE LEE SLOPES HOLDS TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH.

ALL MDLS IN RSNBL AGREEMENT WITH NGM PREFERED FOR SUPERIOR MOISTURE
PARAMETERIZATION.  FWC TEMPS LOOK ABOUT RIGHT FOR TNGT THUS WL STICK
WITH GOING FCST WITH ONLY MINOR TWEEKS.

...LONG TERM...
IN LTR PDS MAIN QSTN BECOMES STRONG COLD HIGH THAT MDLS DIVE INTO
RGN FM CANADA ON WED.  ETA/NGM AND AVN ALL IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON THIS
SYS.  IT DOES APR THAT THE HIGH ORIGINATES AS A HUNK OF THE MARITIME
PACIFIC HIGH IN THE GULF OF AK WHICH IS A LTL WORRISOME.  IF IT DOES
NOT END UP BEING AS STRONG AND COLD AS ALL THE MDLS FCST THE LATTER
PART OF THIS FCST MAY BE A BIG BUST.  SINCE ALL ARE IN GOOD
AGREEMENT HOWEVER HAVE CHOSEN TO GO WITH THEM BRINGING THE COLD FNT
THROUGH ALL MY ZNS ON WED.  AVN MAY BE BEST WITH THE PAC CST H5 LOW
AS IT HAS BEEN MORE CONSERVATIVE IN MOVING THIS FEATURE EWRD WITH
TIME.  IT PUTS THE LOW ARND SLC BY WED EVE WITH BAROCLINIC ZN ALOFT
OVER THE POLAR COLD FNT IN THE HIGH PLAINS RGN.  THIS TRANSLATES TO
HEALTHY ISENT UPGLIDE OVER THE COLD AIR AS WELL AS DECENT UPSLP.
FOR WED WILL GO WITH TEMPS A CATEGORY OR 2 COOLER THAN FWC AND BUMP
THE POPS UP AS WELL.  IN FACT...THE EAST SIDE OF THE H5 LOW
BAROCLINIC ZN REACHES WRN KS TUES NGT AND WL NEED SOME SML POPS IN
WRN 2/3RDS OF MY ZNS THEN AS WELL.  ALL THIS IS SUBJECT TO MUCH
ALTERATION AS TIME PASSES AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE COLD HIGH AND
UPR LOW BECOME MORE APPARENT.
JOHNSON

MRF CONTINUES TO BE THE MOST CONSISTENT MODEL FROM RUN TO RUN...SO
WILL STICK WITH IT FOR NOW. NEXT FRONTAL BOUNDAY TO MOVE THROUGH
DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY WITH A STRONG HIGH PRESSURE CENTER MOVING
FROM JUST NORTH OF THE DAKOTAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT TO THE EASTERN GREAT
LAKES FRIDAY EVENING. UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES FROM NORTHWEST COLORADO
TO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE DURING THE SAME TIME FRAME. THIS INDICATES
WESTERN KANSAS WILL BE A GOOD UPSLOPE PATTERN WITH PLENTY OF UPPER
LEVEL ENERGY TO AID IN BRINGING WIDESPREAD RAIN...ALONG WITH COOLER
TEMPS TO THE REGION BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. EXPECT TO SEE SOME
DECREASE IN THE CLOUDS ON SATURDAY AS THE SFC HIGH PUSHES FARTHER
EAST AND AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH MOVES IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THE UPPER
LEVEL HIGH BECOMES SITUATED OVER WESTERN KANSAS SUNDAY EVENING AND
INCHES NORTHEAST ON MONDAY...BRINGING FEW CLOUDS AND WARMER TEMPS
BACK TO THE AREA.
PARKIN

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST.

DDC 060/091 063/077 060 202
GCK 056/091 061/077 060 202
EHA 056/089 060/075 060 203
LBL 061/092 064/080 062 202
HYS 060/090 062/076 058 202
P28 064/093 066/082 064 200

.DDC...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 28, 12:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1247 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0536 PM    12 NE STAFFORD            KS   2.00 INCH HAIL
09/27/98   STAFFORD                       QUIVIRA WILDLIFE REFUGE.  12 BIRDS
                                          KILLED.  HAIL TO 4 INCHES DEEP ON
                                          GROUND.  ROAD GRADER WINDSHIELD
                                          BUSTED OUT.

1019 PM    15 N MEDICINE LODGE       KS   WIND DAMAGE - LAKE ARROWHEAD
09/27/98   BARBER                         AREA.  2-CAR CARPORT LIFTED
                                          OVER HOUSE.  NUMEROUS
                                          TREES UPROOTED AND DAMAGED.
                                          2 COVERED DOCKS COMPLETELY
                                          DESTROYED.

1050 PM    7 E MEDICINE LODGE        KS   WIND DAMGE.  NUMEROUS TREES AND
09/27/98   BARBER                         LIMBS DAMAGED.  MATURE
                                          COTTONWOOD TREE DESTROYED.

BURKE

Local storm report, Sep 28, 12:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1247 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0536 PM    12 NE STAFFORD            KS   2.00 INCH HAIL
09/27/98   STAFFORD                       QUIVIRA WILDLIFE REFUGE.  12 BIRDS
                                          KILLED.  HAIL TO 4 INCHES DEEP ON
                                          GROUND.  ROAD GRADER WINDSHIELD
                                          BUSTED OUT.

1019 PM    15 N MEDICINE LODGE       KS   WIND DAMAGE - LAKE ARROWHEAD
09/27/98   BARBER                         AREA.  2-CAR CARPORT LIFTED
                                          OVER HOUSE.  NUMEROUS
                                          TREES UPROOTED AND DAMAGED.
                                          2 COVERED DOCKS COMPLETELY
                                          DESTROYED.

1050 PM    7 E MEDICINE LODGE        KS   WIND DAMGE.  NUMEROUS TREES AND
09/27/98   BARBER                         LIMBS DAMAGED.  MATURE
                                          COTTONWOOD TREE DESTROYED.

BURKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 27, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	30 min
Sep 27, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	64 min
Sep 27, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Sep 27, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	30 min
Sep 27, 11:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	34 min
Sep 28, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	34 min
Sep 28, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	46 min
Sep 28, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	32 min
Sep 28, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	64 min

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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.