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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 6, 20085 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2008, 7:02 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 20 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 6, 2008, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2008, 7:22 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 2046 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 6.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 070002
SVRDDC
KSC047-055-069-083-145-070045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0060.080507T0002Z-080507T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
702 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
  WEST CENTRAL PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
  EAST CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
  EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
  CENTRAL HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  JETMORE...MOVING EAST AT 32 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  JETMORE...
  HANSTON...
  HANSTON...
  GRAY...
  RURAL RESIDENCES OF CENTRAL HODGEMAN...EASTERN FINNEY...
  NORTHEASTERN GRAY...NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS AND WESTERN PAWNEE
  COUNTIES.

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 1000 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3818 9942 3793 9935 3795 10004 3799 10041
      3817 10032
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 273DEG 28KT 3819 10001

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDDC 070022
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
722 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

KSC047-055-069-083-145-070032-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0060.000000T0000Z-080507T0045Z/
PAWNEE KS-FINNEY KS-HODGEMAN KS-EDWARDS KS-GRAY KS-
722 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GRAY...
NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS...CENTRAL HODGEMAN...EAST CENTRAL FINNEY AND
WEST CENTRAL PAWNEE COUNTIES 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 CENTRAL HODGEMAN...EASTERN FINNEY...
NORTHEASTERN GRAY...NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS AND WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTIES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3818 9942 3793 9935 3795 10004 3799 10041
      3817 10032
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 273DEG 28KT 3818 9981

$$

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 3:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
354 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...

A DEEP UPPER TROUGH WAS PROGRESSING EAST ACROSS NORTHERN OLD
MEXICO AND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST TODAY. A DRYLINE EXTENDED FROM
NEAR LAS VEGAS NM TO FAR SE COLORADO. A SUBTLE WARM FRONT EXTENDED
ESE FROM THE DRYLINE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. A STORM DEVELOPED BY
EARLY AFTERNOON IN PROWERS COUNTY AT THIS INTERSECTION. DEWPOINT
DEPRESSIONS WILL BE FAIRLY HIGH THIS AFTERNOON SO TORNADIC STORMS
ARE UNLIKELY. THE SHEAR PROFILE IS NOT THAT GREAT YET EITHER.
HOWEVER, HIGHER DEWPOINTS WERE SURGING NORTH INTO EASTERN NM AND
WEST TEXAS. TORNADO CHANCES COULD INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING ALONG
AND AHEAD OF AN EASTERN, MORE SUBTLE DRYLINE THAT WILL EXTEND FROM
NEAR HUGOTON TO CLOVIS. BUT COMPLICATING MATTERS EVEN MORE IS A
MESOHIGH OVER WEST TEXAS THAT HAS TEMPORARILY AFFECTED THE LOW
LEVEL WIND FIELD.

AS THE UPPER TROUGH PROGRESSES EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON, A 115KT
JET STREAK WILL NOSE INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THIS JET MAY HELP
INITIATE STORMS WELL SOUTH OF OUR FCST AREA TODAY. THE STORMS
ONGOING OVER WEST CENTRAL KANSAS WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN
AND CENTRAL KS TONIGHT, ESPECIALLY NORTH OF DDC.

THE UPPER SYSTEM WILL PASS TO OUR SW AND SOUTH LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE LIKELY FROM DDC SOUTH. THESE STORMS
WILL PROBABLY NOT BE SEVERE SINCE THE LOW LEVEL WILL BE MUCH MORE
STABLE DUE TO OVERNIGHT STORMS AND DIURNAL COOLING.

ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL APPROACH BY THURSDAY. STORMS MAY INITIATE
LATE IN THE DAY NEAR THE DRYLINE/FRONT INTERSECTION AND THEN BUILD
INTO AN MCS OVERNIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL KS.

DAYS 3-7...

THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY WITH A CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS, THEN RIDGING INCREASES INTO MONDAY WITH A WARMING
TREND. BY TUESDAY THE ECMWF AND THE GFS ARE IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THE
NEXT TROUGH PLACEMENT. WILL HEDGE TOWARD THE WARMER ECMWF FOR THE
TEMPERATURES. OVERNIGHT LOWS SHOULD STAY FAIRLY MILD IN THE 40S AND
50S WITH HIGHS IN THE MID AND UPPER 70S FRIDAY, LOW 70S FOR THE
WEEKEND, THEN WARMING TO THE MID 70S FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.AVIATION...

LOOK FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM MAINLY IN THE HAYS REGION
AFTER 5 PM WITH SOME MORE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
DODGE CITY AND GARDEN CITY TAF AREAS. IF A LARGE AREA OF OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS FORMS SOUTH OF KANSAS INTO WEST TEXAS THEN THE DODGE
CITY AREA COULD BE BETWEEN STORMS NORTH AND STORMS SOUTH. A COLD
FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE FROM THE GOODLAND AREA TOWARD HAYS AND
GARDEN CITY AROUND MIDNIGHT WITH POSSIBLY A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
ALONG IT. SOME STRATUS MAY ALSO FORM BEHIND THE COLD FRONT FOR A FEW
HOURS.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DDC  57  66  48  78 /  70  80  20   0
GCK  55  65  47  80 /  60  60   0   0
EHA  55  66  48  84 /  50  50   0   0
LBL  56  66  49  82 /  60  70  20   0
HYS  56  69  46  76 /  60  40  20   0
P28  62  69  52  78 /  60  80  30   0

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

FN24/06

Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 12:21 PM CDT, 6 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1221 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

KSZ066-079>081-089-090-071730-
STAFFORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-COMANCHE-BARBER-
1221 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER 8 PM. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD
BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY. A FEW
OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE
WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED AFTER 8 PM.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

KSZ030-031-045-046-064-065-077-078-087-088-071730-
TREGO-ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-GRAY-FORD-MEADE-CLARK-
1221 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER 6 PM. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD
BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. A
FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE
WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED AFTER 6 PM CDT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-071730-
SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-
STEVENS-SEWARD-
1221 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 /1121 AM MDT TUE MAY 6 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN FAR WESTERN KANSAS AFTER 2
PM CDT. THESE STORMS WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL TO THE
SIZE OF BASEBALLS. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL. THE STORMS MAY
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS BY 6 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY BUT THESE STORMS
WILL PROBABLY NOT BE SEVERE.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE
WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED AFTER 2 PM CDT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 4:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
410 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0351 PM     HAIL             15 N LAKIN              38.16N 101.26W
05/06/2008  M0.75 INCH       KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

0405 PM     HAIL             N LAKIN                 37.94N 101.26W
05/06/2008  M1.00 INCH       KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

&&

06

Local storm report, May 6, 4:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
422 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0419 PM     HAIL             19 NNE LAKIN            38.19N 101.12W
05/06/2008  E0.88 INCH       KEARNY             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            IT HAS THE GROUND COVERED.

&&

MB

Local storm report, May 6, 5:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
506 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0450 PM     HAIL             16 N HOLCOMB            38.22N 100.99W
05/06/2008  E1.00 INCH       FINNEY             KS   PUBLIC

            THERE WAS A LOT OF HAIL COVERING THE GROUND. SIZES RANGED
            FROM PEAS TO QUARTERS.

&&

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Local storm report, May 6, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
514 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0500 PM     HAIL             15 NNE HOLCOMB          38.19N 100.88W
05/06/2008  E1.00 INCH       FINNEY             KS   PUBLIC

            IT HAILED FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES.

&&

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Local storm report, May 6, 6:24 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
624 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0545 PM     HAIL             14 SE DIGHTON           38.34N 100.28W
05/06/2008  M0.75 INCH       LANE               KS   PUBLIC

0615 PM     HAIL             17 E NESS CITY          38.45N 99.59W
05/06/2008  M0.75 INCH       NESS               KS   PUBLIC

&&

06

Local storm report, May 6, 6:33 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
633 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0550 PM     HAIL             11 NW KALVESTA          38.16N 100.42W
05/06/2008  E0.88 INCH       FINNEY             KS   PUBLIC

0620 PM     HAIL             7 N KALVESTA            38.15N 100.28W
05/06/2008  E1.75 INCH       FINNEY             KS   PUBLIC

&&

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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
May 6, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	46 min
May 6, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny	50 min
May 6, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	48 min
May 6, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	40 min
May 6, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	52 min
May 6, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	46 min
May 6, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	48 min
May 6, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	60 min
May 6, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	63 min
May 6, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	46 min
May 7, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Trego	39 min
May 7, 1:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	3 hr
May 7, 4:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	3 hr
May 7, 9:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis	5 hr

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.