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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 2, 1999Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1999, 5:39 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
May 2, 1999, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1999, 6:25 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 12:00Z on 1999-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1999-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 408 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
758 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 022239 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC189-022325-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
539 PM CDT SUN MAY 2 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 625 PM CDT

* AT 537 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF MOSCOW... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MOSCOW                       BY 605 PM CDT
  CAVE                         BY 615 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR HAIL UP TO 1
INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDYP
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

GERARD/SLEIGHTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.