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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 29, 2010Rush County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2010-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2010-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 8:18 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDDCEdwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 13 more4 hr
Apr 29, 8:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCRush40 min
Apr 29, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee47 min
Apr 29, 10:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford43 min
Apr 29, 11:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKiowa, Pratt41 min
Apr 29, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford48 min
Apr 30, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt, Stafford35 min
Apr 30, 1:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber41 min
Apr 30, 3:01 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDDCFinney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more17 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.