Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2006, 6:32 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- May 7, 2006, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 16 Nw Garden City, KS | |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 Nw Holcomb, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 072332
SVRDDC
KSC055-080015-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0039.060507T2332Z-060508T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
632 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
FRIEND...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN FINNEY 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.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3825 10110 3826 10096 3819 10082 3816 10085
3803 10108 3803 10108 3806 10108 3807 10110
$$
UMSCHEID1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KDDC 080013
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
712 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006
KSC055-080022-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-060508T0015Z/
FINNEY KS-
712 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY REMAINS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT...
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 715 PM CDT...
A TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY HAS REPLACED
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3825 10110 3826 10096 3819 10082 3816 10085
3803 10108 3803 10108 3806 10108 3807 10110
$$
UMSCHEIDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 52 min |
| May 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 34 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.