Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2011, 11:04 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2011, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
493
WUUS53 KDDC 200404
SVRDDC
KSC145-165-200430-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0019.110520T0404Z-110520T0430Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1104 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
EASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 1100 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM LIEBENTHAL TO 6 MILES NORTH OF ASH VALLEY TO
SANFORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO
ACCOMPANY THESE DAMAGING WINDS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BISON...
LORETTA...
SHAFFER...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN RUSH AND NORTHEASTERN PAWNEE
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.
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY AND RUSH COUNTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3827 9902 3827 9891 3826 9891 3811 9933
3836 9930 3866 9933 3869 9902
TIME...MOT...LOC 0403Z 242DEG 29KT 3861 9923 3838 9915
3818 9923
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 0.88IN
$$
UMSCHEID1 follow-up statement
760
WWUS53 KDDC 200430
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1130 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011
KSC145-165-200440-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0019.000000T0000Z-110520T0430Z/
RUSH KS-PAWNEE KS-
1130 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PAWNEE AND
EASTERN RUSH COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE
WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
LAT...LON 3827 9902 3827 9891 3826 9891 3811 9933
3836 9930 3866 9933 3869 9902
TIME...MOT...LOC 0404Z 242DEG 29KT 3861 9922 3838 9914
3818 9922
$$
UMSCHEIDThe 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, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 42 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.