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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 23, 2007Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2007, 4:48 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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: Mar 23, 2007, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2007, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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
Mar 23, 5:00 PM CDT	HAIL 1	15 S Meade, KS

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
Mar 23, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 232148
SVRDDC
KSC119-232230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0013.070323T2148Z-070323T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
448 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 442 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE STATE PARK...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MEADE STATE PARK...
  MEADE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF MEADE COUNTY.

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE
SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3701 10060 3701 10032 3726 10009 3742 10031

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 232212
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
511 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007

KSC119-232230-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070323T2230Z/
MEADE KS-
511 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR EASTERN MEADE COUNTY...

AT 506 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE...OR 7 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MEADE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN MEADE COUNTY.

AT 5 PM A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 15 MILES SOUTH 
OF MEADE. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES 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 3703 10048 3702 10015 3726 10009 3742 10031

$$

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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
Mar 23, 3:30 PM CDT	Flood Watch	DDC	Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Scott, Stanton	22 hr
Mar 23, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	43 min
Mar 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	45 min
Mar 23, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	48 min
Mar 23, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	35 min
Mar 23, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	48 min
Mar 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	44 min
Mar 23, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	33 min
Mar 23, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	34 min
Mar 23, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	21 min
Mar 23, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	39 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.