Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2005, 3:37 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
- Oct 19, 2005, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 3:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 6 N Stafford, KS | COVERED THE GROUND. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 192037 SVRDDC KSC185-192100- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0261.051019T2037Z-051019T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 337 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STAFFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY... STAFFORD... HUDSON... 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. LAT...LON 3789 9880 3785 9850 3823 9850 3823 9871 $$ 18
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 192047 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 346 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2005 KSC185-192100- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0261.000000T0000Z-051019T2100Z/ STAFFORD KS- 346 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT... AT 344 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF HUDSON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY... HUDSON... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3789 9880 3785 9850 3823 9850 3823 9871 $$ 18
000 WWUS53 KDDC 192101 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 401 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2005 KSC185-192111- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0261.000000T0000Z-051019T2100Z/ STAFFORD KS- 401 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 400 PM CDT... AT 356 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3789 9880 3785 9850 3823 9850 3823 9871 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 59 min |
| Oct 19, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Meade | 51 min |
| Oct 19, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Oct 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Pawnee | 34 min |
| Oct 19, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 39 min |
| Oct 19, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| Oct 19, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 36 min |
| Oct 19, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 41 min |
| Oct 19, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 38 min |
| Oct 19, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Oct 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 63 min |
| Oct 19, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 36 min |
| Oct 19, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 18 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.