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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 28, 2005Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2005, 4:19 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 2005, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 28, 4:30 PM CDTHAIL 15 Nne Protection, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 2005-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 314 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2005-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 282119
SVRDDC
KSC033-282200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0252.050828T2119Z-050828T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
419 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 418 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO ONE INCH SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR PROTECTION...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY...
  PROTECTION...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...
IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING.

AT 418 PM A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED PING PONG BALL SIZED 
HAIL 5 MILES NORTH OF COLDWATER.

LAT...LON 3716 9954 3717 9935 3738 9935 3737 9954

$$

LACY
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KDDC 282200
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
500 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

KSC033-282210-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-050828T2200Z/
COMANCHE KS-
500 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY 
HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 456 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS DIMINISHED AND NO LONGER
POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3716 9954 3717 9935 3738 9935 3737 9954

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford46 min
Aug 28, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.