Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2007, 10:10 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 13, 2007, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 10:20 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Ingalls, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 1349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 140309 SVRDDC KSC069-140345- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0310.071014T0310Z-071014T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1010 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1007 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 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INGALLS...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... INGALLS... CIMARRON... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN GRAY 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3797 10056 3794 10024 3770 10032 3769 10064 TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 215DEG 19KT 3772 10051 $$ BURKE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDDC 140328 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1028 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2007 KSC069-140345- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-071014T0345Z/ GRAY KS- 1028 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY... AT 1024 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR INGALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... INGALLS... RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3797 10056 3794 10024 3782 10032 3778 10055 TIME...MOT...LOC 0328Z 213DEG 27KT 3785 10043 $$ UMSCHEID
000 WWUS53 KDDC 140347 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1046 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2007 KSC069-140356- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-071014T0345Z/ GRAY KS- 1046 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1045 PM CDT... THE STORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. A NEW WARNING FOR FAR NORTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3797 10056 3794 10024 3782 10032 3778 10055 TIME...MOT...LOC 0328Z 213DEG 27KT 3785 10043 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 44 min |
| Oct 13, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 18 min |
| Oct 13, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Pawnee | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 52 min |
| Oct 14, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 10 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.