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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2008, 9:55 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- May 23, 2008, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2008, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 2314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 14.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 240255 SVRDDC KSC025-240345- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0113.080524T0255Z-080524T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 955 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 954 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ACRES... ASHLAND... RURAL RESIDENCES OF CLARK 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 400 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3744 9955 3701 9973 3701 10005 3745 9993 TIME...MOT...LOC 0255Z 265DEG 30KT 3727 9983 $$ BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness, Rush, Trego | 45 min |
| May 23, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Ness | 43 min |
| May 23, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 26 min |
| May 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 29 min |
| May 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| May 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Meade, Scott | 58 min |
| May 23, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 39 min |
| May 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 66 min |
| May 23, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 51 min |
| May 23, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 58 min |
| May 23, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 36 min |
| May 23, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 47 min |
| May 23, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 55 min |
| May 23, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 6 more | 66 min |
| May 23, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 38 min |
| May 23, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| May 23, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 37 min |
| May 23, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 51 min |
| May 23, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 23, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 39 min |
| May 23, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 22 min |
| May 23, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa | 54 min |
| May 23, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 50 min |
| May 23, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 32 min |
| May 23, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 47 min |
| May 23, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 17 min |
| May 23, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 65 min |
| May 23, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 30 min |
| May 23, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 27 min |
| May 23, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 38 min |
| May 24, 3:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 10 hr |
| May 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 3 more | 11 hr |
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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.