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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 10, 2007Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2007, 6:39 PM CST for Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 10, 2007, 6:39 PM CST (00:39 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2007, 7:10 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grant County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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 10, 6:39 PM CST	HAIL 1	10 E Johnson City, KS	NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL AT ABOUT 635 PM FOLLOWED BY QUARTER SIZE STONES AT 639 PM.

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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 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 110038
SVRDDC
KSC067-187-110130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0009.070311T0039Z-070311T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
639 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
  EAST CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 634 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BIG BOW...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF EASTERN STANTON COUNTY...
  BIG BOW...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3760 10168 3747 10153 3773 10111 3772 10144

$$

GERARD

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 110106
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
705 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

KSC187-110115-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070311T0130Z/
STANTON KS-
705 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR STANTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF STANTON COUNTY...
  BIG BOW...

LAT...LON 3748 10152 3767 10152 3768 10151 3768 10150
      3772 10144 3772 10113

$$

KSC067-110130-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070311T0130Z/
GRANT KS-
705 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CST
FOR NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY...

AT 659 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER WEST
CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BIG BOW...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3748 10152 3767 10152 3768 10151 3768 10150
      3772 10144 3772 10113

$$

GERARD

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 110110
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
710 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

KSC067-110120-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070311T0130Z/
GRANT KS-
710 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND EXITED THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3748 10152 3767 10152 3768 10151 3768 10150
      3772 10144 3772 10113

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	47 min
Mar 10, 6:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	41 min
Mar 10, 6:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	40 min
Mar 10, 7:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	44 min
Mar 10, 7:10 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	50 min
Mar 10, 7:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	43 min
Mar 10, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	41 min
Mar 10, 8:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	45 min
Mar 10, 8:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	44 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.