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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2011, 4:48 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 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
- Aug 26, 2011, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2011, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 26, 4:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 N Trego Center, KS | |
| Aug 26, 4:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 N Trego Center, KS | |
| Aug 26, 5:05 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 7 Ssw Voda, KS | |
| Aug 26, 5:05 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 7 Ssw Voda, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 3032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
453 WUUS53 KDDC 262148 SVRDDC KSC195-262200- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0246.110826T2148Z-110826T2200Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 448 PM CDT FRI AUG 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF TREGO CENTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TREGO CENTER... VODA... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR TREGO 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 3903 9975 3882 9981 3890 10010 3905 10010 TIME...MOT...LOC 2147Z 109DEG 3KT 3895 9995 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ WAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.