Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2007, 9:02 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 8, 2007, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 9:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 090202 SVRDDC KSC151-090245- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0252.070809T0202Z-070809T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 902 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 858 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 4 MILES SOUTH OF CAIRO...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CAIRO... PRESTON... RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN PRATT 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. LAT...LON 3781 9866 3749 9861 3749 9846 3781 9847 $$ KRUSE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 090213 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 914 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 KSC151-090245- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-070809T0245Z/ PRATT KS- 914 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR EASTERN PRATT COUNTY... AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF CAIRO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3781 9866 3749 9861 3749 9846 3781 9847 $$ KRUSE
000 WWUS53 KDDC 090233 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 933 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 KSC151-090243- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-070809T0245Z/ PRATT KS- 933 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN PRATT COUNTY. LAT...LON 3781 9866 3749 9861 3749 9846 3781 9847 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 1:55 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | DDC | Barber, Pratt, Stafford | 3 days |
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.