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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2010, 9:08 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 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
- Apr 29, 2010, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2010, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
972 WUUS53 KDDC 300208 SVRDDC KSC165-300245- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0021.100430T0208Z-100430T0245Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 908 PM CDT THU APR 29 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 903 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHAFFER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHAFFER... OTIS... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3852 9923 3864 9904 3835 9904 3835 9926 TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 210DEG 38KT 3848 9909 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
785 WWUS53 KDDC 300220 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 920 PM CDT THU APR 29 2010 KSC165-300230- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100430T0245Z/ RUSH KS- 920 PM CDT THU APR 29 2010 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3852 9923 3864 9904 3835 9904 3835 9926 TIME...MOT...LOC 0220Z 210DEG 38KT 3860 9900 $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:18 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 8:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 11:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 1:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 3:01 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more | 17 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.