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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 16, 20114 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2011, 8:28 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2011, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edwards County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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 16, 8:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	4 Ssw Dillwyn, 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 16, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 2014 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -356 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 611 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.

163 
WUUS53 KDDC 170128
SVRDDC
KSC047-145-151-185-170215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0110.110617T0128Z-110617T0215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
828 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTH CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR BYERS...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BYERS...
  ST. JOHN...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN EDWARDS...NORTHERN PRATT...
  SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE AND SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTIES.

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 3802 9875 3766 9875 3766 9895 3788 9900
      3789 9910 3802 9913
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 271DEG 11KT 3778 9885
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN

$$

JJOHNSON

1 follow-up statement

313 
WWUS53 KDDC 170140
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
840 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

KSC047-145-170150-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0110.000000T0000Z-110617T0215Z/
PAWNEE KS-EDWARDS KS-
840 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL EDWARDS AND
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3802 9875 3766 9875 3766 9895 3788 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0140Z 271DEG 11KT 3775 9878

$$

KSC151-185-170215-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0110.000000T0000Z-110617T0215Z/
STAFFORD KS-PRATT KS-
840 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
PRATT AND SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
IUKA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BYERS...
  ST. JOHN...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN PRATT AND SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD
  COUNTIES.

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 3802 9875 3766 9875 3766 9895 3788 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0140Z 271DEG 11KT 3775 9878
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.75IN

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 min
Jun 16, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	61 min
Jun 16, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	61 min
Jun 16, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Kiowa	45 min
Jun 16, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa	26 min
Jun 16, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	50 min
Jun 16, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	45 min
Jun 16, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	21 min
Jun 16, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	31 min
Jun 16, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	46 min
Jun 16, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	37 min
Jun 16, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	34 min
Jun 16, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	54 min
Jun 16, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	42 min
Jun 16, 9:38 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 12 more	4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.