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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 1, 2006Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2006, 3:45 PM CST for Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 1, 2006, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2006, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Edwards County, KS, Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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
Apr 1, 4:00 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	10 Nne Kinsley, KS
Apr 1, 4:00 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	6 S Rozel, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2363 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 841 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 012145
SVRDDC
KSC047-145-012230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0002.060401T2145Z-060401T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
345 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SANFORD...ROZEL...LARNED...
  GARFIELD...FRIZELL...ASH VALLEY

* UNTIL 430 PM CST

* AT 344 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF GARFIELD...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH
  OF KINSLEY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SANFORD...ROZEL AND 7 MILES WEST OF FRIZELL BY 355 PM CST
  ASH VALLEY BY 405 PM CST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOS CAN
AND OCCASIONALLY DO DEVELOP WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 3795 9954 3792 9936 3824 9901 3834 9913
      3833 9948

$$

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2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 012153
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
353 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

KSC047-145-012230-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060401T2230Z/
PAWNEE KS-EDWARDS KS-
353 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CST
FOR NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS AND CENTRAL PAWNEE COUNTIES...

AT 348 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF GARFIELD...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF KINSLEY...MOVING NORTH AT 55
MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SANFORD...ROZEL AND 8 MILES WEST OF FRIZELL BY 400 PM CST
  ASH VALLEY BY 410 PM CST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3795 9954 3792 9936 3824 9901 3834 9913
      3833 9948

$$

UMSCHEID

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 012227
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
427 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

KSC047-145-012237-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060401T2230Z/
PAWNEE KS-EDWARDS KS-
427 PM CST SAT APR 1 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS AND
PAWNEE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 430 PM CST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
1000 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3795 9954 3792 9936 3824 9901 3834 9913
      3833 9948

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 2:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	51 min
Apr 1, 3:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	42 min
Apr 1, 3:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	40 min
Apr 1, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	52 min
Apr 1, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	39 min
Apr 1, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	39 min
Apr 1, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	49 min
Apr 1, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	43 min
Apr 1, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	28 min
Apr 1, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	30 min
Apr 1, 5:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	19 min
Apr 1, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Meade	47 min
Apr 1, 5:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	44 min
Apr 1, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee	43 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.