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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 22, 1999Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1999, 5:58 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 22, 1999, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 1999-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 316 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 1999-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 248 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
316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 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.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 222300 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC033-230000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
558 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 556 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INTERSECTION OF H160/183/1...
  OR 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUTTERMILK.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  INTERSECTION OF H160/183/1   BY 605 PM CDT
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL COMANCHE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER.

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.

BURKE/SLEIGHTER

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.