Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

May 4, 1999, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)

Expired

May 4, 1999, 1:50 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Ellis County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KDDC 041802 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC051-041850-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
102 PM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 150 PM CDT

* AT 100 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM NEAR EMMERAM... MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF NORTHERN ELLIS COUNTY

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 STURDY
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 4, 4:28 AM CDT, 8 hours 34 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
428 AM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999

...MAIN QSTN THIS CYCLE IS WHICH MODEL TO BELIEVE IF ANY...

ALL FAIRLY SIMILAR WITH THE UPPER LOW MOVING EAST ACROSS NRN KS TDY
AND TNGT SO LAPSE RATES TO REMAIN STEEP AND WL HAVE TO KEEP SOME CHC
POPS MOST AREAS FOR BOTH PDS. ETA INITIALIZED BEST ON SFC MSL PTTN
AND WL THUS USE IT FOR WINDS AND TEMPS AS IT BRINGS A SFC LOW OUT
ACROSS KANSAS TODAY. THIS IS A BIG CHG FM GOING FCST FOR WINDS.  MY
FAR ERN ZNS SHD SEE PRETTY BRISK SOUTH WINDS EARLY BUT AS THE LOW
MOVES EAST FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY THE COLD FRONT XPCT WIND TO SHIFT
NORTH TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE INTO THE WINDY CATEGORY.  NO WIND
ADVISORY ATTM BUT NEXT SHIFT WILL HAVE TO WATCH.

HAVE UNDERCUT FWC TEMPS SOME FOR CAA AND CLOUDS ALL PDS.  GRADIENT
SHD CONTINUE TONIGHT AND FOR MOST OF TOMORROW WITH FAIR AMOUNT OF
MID AND UPPER LEVEL MSTR AND CAA SO WILL STAY UNDER FWC THRU THE
FCST AND KEEP WIND UP.  TOO FAR IN FUTURE FOR THIS FCST BUT NEXT
SHIFT MAY NEED WIND ADVISORY BOTH TONIGHT AND AT LEAST PART OF THE
DAY WEDNESDAY.

EXTENDED FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK SO NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED THIS
MORNING. LATEST AVN/MRF SUGGESTING COOLER AIR TRYING TO WORK ITS WAY
SOUTH ACROSS THE PLAINS ON WEDNESDAY AS NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES.
WILL THEREFORE TWEAK TEMPS SLIGHTLY ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT TO ACCOUNT FOR
THIS.

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

DDC 068/040 062/035 062 33-
GCK 064/038 064/035 066 33-
EHA 065/039 065/036 066 33-
LBL 067/040 066/036 067 33-
HYS 070/043 058/035 058 55-
P28 075/050 065/043 062 330

.DDC...NONE.

JOHNSON/RB

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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.