Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2011, 10:33 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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 19, 2011, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2011, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
915 WUUS53 KDDC 200333 SVRDDC KSC145-165-200415- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0018.110520T0333Z-110520T0415Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1033 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1028 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 BURDETT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ROZEL... FRIZELL... LARNED... ASH VALLEY... RUSH CENTER... LA CROSSE... TIMKEN... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN PAWNEE AND RUSH 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. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. SIGNIFICANT PONDING OF WATER IS POSSIBLE ON ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL FILL QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3863 9922 3818 9899 3811 9953 3835 9956 TIME...MOT...LOC 0333Z 223DEG 40KT 3823 9946 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 43 min |
| May 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 51 min |
| May 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 50 min |
| May 19, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 51 min |
| May 19, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford | 40 min |
| May 19, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| May 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 27 min |
| May 19, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 38 min |
| May 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Pawnee, Rush | 45 min |
| May 19, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 48 min |
| May 19, 9:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Rush | 6 hr |
| May 19, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 40 min |
| May 19, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 26 min |
| May 20, 3:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 33 min |
| May 20, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 38 min |
| May 20, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 40 min |
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.