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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 20, 2008Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2008, 2:44 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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: Jun 20, 2008, 2:44 PM MDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2008, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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
Jun 20, 2:55 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	4 N Syracuse, 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
Jun 20, 11:56 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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 202044
SVRDDC
KSC075-202130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0252.080620T2044Z-080620T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
244 PM MDT FRI JUN 20 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 242 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF
  SYRACUSE...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF COOLIDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  28 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SYRACUSE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF HAMILTON 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 700 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3806 10155 3786 10155 3780 10189 3818 10199
      3825 10177
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 324DEG 24KT 3813 10182

$$

GERARD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 202113 RRA
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
411 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008

KSC075-202130-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-080620T2130Z/
HAMILTON KS-
311 PM MDT FRI JUN 20 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY...

AT 306 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 28 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SYRACUSE...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY.

AT 255 PM MDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 4 MILES NORTH OF 
SYRACUSE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. 

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 700 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3780 10189 3812 10194 3817 10177 3806 10155
      3798 10155 3797 10156 3796 10155 3786 10155
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 324DEG 24KT 3803 10175

$$

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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
Jun 20, 1:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	44 min
Jun 20, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	46 min
Jun 20, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	44 min
Jun 20, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	57 min
Jun 20, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	40 min
Jun 20, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	42 min
Jun 20, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	59 min
Jun 20, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens	65 min

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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.