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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2011, 5:44 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 13 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
- Aug 12, 2011, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.5 in
- Wind
- 80.0 mph
Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:01 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 3 Ene Cullison, KS | |
| Aug 12, 6:07 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 75 | 5 W Pratt, KS | |
| Aug 12, 6:11 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | 1 W Pratt, KS | |
| Aug 12, 6:16 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | 5 S Pratt, KS | |
| Aug 12, 6:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 0 | Pratt, KS | FIVE INCH TREE LIMB WAS DOWNED. |
| Aug 12, 6:20 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Pratt, KS | FIVE INCH TREE LIMB WAS DOWNED. |
| Aug 12, 6:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | Pratt, KS | NUMEROUS TREES DAMAGED IN PRATT WITH 3 TO 6 INCH LIMBS DOWN. |
| Aug 12, 6:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | Pratt, KS | |
| Aug 12, 6:23 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Pratt, KS | TOPS OF POWER POLES SNAPPED AT 20TH ST SW OF PRATT |
| Aug 12, 6:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nw Sawyer, KS | 35 FOOT TRAILER WAS BLOWN ON TOP OF A CHEVY SUBURBAN. |
| Aug 12, 6:27 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nw Sawyer, KS | 35 FOOT TRAILER WAS BLOWN ON TOP OF A CHEVY SUBURBAN. |
| Aug 12, 6:39 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Medicine Lodge, KS | |
| Aug 12, 6:39 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Medicine Lodge, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2073 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
271
WUUS53 KDDC 122244
SVRDDC
KSC007-151-122330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0236.110812T2244Z-110812T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
544 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP
TO TENNIS BALL SIZE...AND DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE FORCE WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 80 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WELLSFORD...AND
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CROFT...
CULLISON...
SUN CITY...
COATS...
LAKE CITY...
IUKA...
PRATT...
SAWYER...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF BARBER AND PRATT COUNTIES.
AT 5:41 PM CDT...A STORM CHASER REPORTED 60 MPH WIND GUSTS 2 MILES
WEST OF CULLISON.
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 3782 9849 3738 9848 3738 9836 3701 9836
3701 9899 3782 9901
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 276DEG 18KT 3759 9897
WIND...HAIL 80MPH 2.50IN
$$
12The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 53 min |
| Aug 12, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 63 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.