Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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 20, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2011, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
321
WUUS53 KDDC 210100
SVRDDC
KSC151-210130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0022.110521T0100Z-110521T0130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
800 PM CDT FRI MAY 20 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAIRO...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CAIRO...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN PRATT 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 3753 9863 3769 9862 3776 9846 3775 9846
3756 9845 3750 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 268DEG 10KT 3761 9856
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
UMSCHEID1 follow-up statement
848
WWUS53 KDDC 210128
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
828 PM CDT FRI MAY 20 2011
KSC151-210138-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-110521T0130Z/
PRATT KS-
828 PM CDT FRI MAY 20 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT/730 PM MDT/...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3753 9863 3769 9862 3776 9846 3775 9846
3756 9845 3750 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 268DEG 10KT 3761 9846
$$
UMSCHEIDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 7:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Pratt | 3 hr |
| May 20, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
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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.