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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 11, 2006Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2006, 3:22 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2006, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clark County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 11, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 48 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 112021
SVRDDC
KSC025-112100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0182.060711T2022Z-060711T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
322 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  NORTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY...OR ABOUT NEAR CLARK STATE LAKE...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

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

LAT...LON 3746 9973 3735 9980 3726 9980 3720 9956
      3746 9957

$$

GRZYWACZ

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 112040
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

KSC025-112100-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0182.000000T0000Z-060711T2100Z/
CLARK KS-
340 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY...

AT 339 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY...OR ABOUT NEAR CLARK STATE LAKE...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 3746 9973 3735 9980 3726 9980 3720 9956
      3746 9957

$$

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 112059
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
358 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

KSC025-112108-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0182.000000T0000Z-060711T2100Z/
CLARK KS-
358 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 400 PM CDT...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3746 9973 3735 9980 3726 9980 3720 9956
      3746 9957

$$

UMSCHEID

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 11, 3:13 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:13 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
313 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...

WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS TODAY HAS
BEEN THE FOCUS OF ISOLD STORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WE RECEIVED
NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN AT THE DODGE CITY AIRPORT WHEREAS OTHER
PARTS OF TOWN DIDNT GET A DROP. GIVEN THE LACK OF ANY DEEP LAYER
FORCING...THE MODE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ISOLATED TO WIDELY
SCATTERED PULSE STORMS...SOME OF WHICH MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH UP
TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH BRIEF WIND GUSTS. WILL GO WITH 30
TO 40 POPS FOR MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER THE
REST OF THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THE SVR WATCH (NO. 592)
IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT...ALTHOUGH IF THE ACTIVITY DOESNT
RAMP UP OVER A LARGER AREA...THE WATCH MAY BE CANCELED EARLY. THE
LACK OF DEEP LAYER SHEAR...LESS THAN 10 KNOTS OF HODOGRAPH LENGTH
THROUGH 6 KM AGL...ALONG WITH DEW POINT DEPRESSIONS OF AROUND 30
DEGREES...HAS ALLOWED FOR SIGNIFICANT SPREADING OF COLD POOLS FROM
THE FORWARD FLANK OF THE STORMS. IT IS DIFFICULT TO SUSTAIN SEVERE
IN THIS ENVIRONMENT ABSENT OF ADEQUATE DEEP LAYER FORCING FOR
UPWARD MOTION AND STORM RELATIVE LOW LEVEL INFLOW WINDS.

FOR TOMORROW...THE WEAK BOUNDARY SHOULD BE ALONG OR JUST SOUTH OF
THE OKLAHOMA LINE WHERE ADDITIONAL ISOLD LATE DAY STORMS MAY
DEVELOP. WILL GO WITH 30 TO 40 POPS LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE MID
EVENING HOURS WITH CONTINUED AMPLE MOISTURE IN PLACE. HIGHS SHOULD
BE WELL INTO THE 90S FOR MOST OF THE AREA. IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF
THE ATMOSPHERE... A SIGNIFICANT PACIFIC JET WILL IMPINGE ON THE
NORTHERN ROCKIES AREA WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR A DECENT LEE TROUGH IN
THE LOW LEVELS TO ESTABLISH OVER THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS. THIS
WILL ALLOW LOW LEVEL WINDS IN WESTERN KANSAS TO INCREASE IN
RESPONSE TO THIS...LEE TROUGH CONVERGENCE MAY BE ENOUGH TO PROMOTE
AFTERNOON STORMS THURSDAY AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE UPPER 90S.

DAYS 3-7...

FORECAST CHALLENGES FOR THIS EXTENDED PERIOD CONTINUE TO BE HIGH
TEMPERATURES. UPPER LEVEL HEIGHTS RISE AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN WITH
CONTINUED LAYER WARMING. THE WARMING IN THE MID LEVELS SHOULD BE
ENOUGH TO HOLD OFF ANY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. OVERNIGHT LOWS SHOULD
BE AROUND 70 WITH HIGHS AROUND 100.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DDC  69  93  71  97 /  40  20  40  10
GCK  69  94  69  97 /  40  30  40  10
EHA  68  95  69  96 /  30  20  40  10
LBL  68  95  69  99 /  30  20  40  10
HYS  69  91  71  98 /  10  20  20  10
P28  72  94  72  97 /  40  20  30  10

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

FN25/06

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 5:22 AM CDT, 10 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
522 AM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-121000-
BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-ELLIS-FINNEY-FORD-GRANT-GRAY-HAMILTON-
HASKELL-HODGEMAN-KEARNY-KIOWA-LANE-MEADE-MORTON-NESS-PAWNEE-PRATT-
RUSH-SCOTT-SEWARD-STAFFORD-STANTON-STEVENS-TREGO-
522 AM CDT (422 AM MDT) TUE JUL 11 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON OVER THE ROCKIES AND PARTS OF EAST COLORADO. THESE STORMS
WILL DRIFT EAST SOUTHEAST OUT INTO THE PLAINS THROUGH THE EVENING.
THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE WIDELY SCATTERED TO ISOLATED IN
COVERAGE AND NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
OVERNIGHT. THEY WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD THAN MONDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING
VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NO SPOTTERS WILL BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

JOHNSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 2:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
205 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

KSZ078-111945-
FORD-
205 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FORD COUNTY...

AT 201 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DODGE CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3786 9992 3777 10007 3758 9993 3769 9971

GRZYWACZ

Local storm report, Jul 11, 2:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
217 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0208 PM     HAIL             DODGE CITY              37.76N 100.01W
07/11/2006  E1.00 INCH       FORD               KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT OAK ST. AND AVENUE B IN
            DODGE CITY.

&&

LACY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	40 min
Jul 11, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	23 min
Jul 11, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	38 min
Jul 11, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	44 min
Jul 11, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	41 min
Jul 11, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.