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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2011, 8:53 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. 4 reports 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, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2011, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Barber County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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, 9:04 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 3 Ssw Haviland, KS | |
| Jun 16, 9:04 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ssw Haviland, KS | |
| Jun 16, 9:09 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Haviland, KS | |
| Jun 16, 9:13 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 3 Ene Croft, 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KDDC 170153
SVRDDC
KSC007-047-097-151-185-170230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0112.110617T0153Z-110617T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
853 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
WESTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL
SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CENTERVIEW TO 6
MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENSBURG TO 7 MILES WEST OF BELVIDERE...AND
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CENTERVIEW...
FELLSBURG...
HAVILAND...
BELVIDERE...
TROUSDALE...
WELLSFORD...
CROFT...
HOPEWELL...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN KIOWA...NORTHWESTERN BARBER...
SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS...SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD AND WESTERN PRATT
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 3790 9888 3765 9887 3739 9888 3741 9932
3765 9932 3787 9934
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 268DEG 20KT 3778 9920 3765 9917
3746 9918
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.50IN
$$
WAHThe 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, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 47 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, 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.