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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2011, 6:07 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 5 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
- Oct 7, 2011, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 6:18 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | W Holcomb, KS | |
| Oct 7, 6:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 N Garden City, KS | |
| Oct 7, 6:37 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 5 Wnw Garden City, KS | |
| Oct 7, 6:40 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | 1 S Holcomb, KS | |
| Oct 7, 6:52 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 1 E Friend, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
772 WUUS53 KDDC 072307 SVRDDC KSC055-072345- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0263.111007T2307Z-111007T2345Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 607 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 605 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 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLYMELL...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PLYMELL... GARDEN CITY... FRIEND... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN FINNEY 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 3826 10110 3826 10057 3775 10081 3787 10109 TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 202DEG 47KT 3780 10095 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
395 WWUS53 KDDC 072318 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 618 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSC055-072345- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0263.000000T0000Z-111007T2345Z/ FINNEY KS- 618 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT... AT 614 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLYMELL...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GARDEN CITY... HOLCOMB... FRIEND... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3826 10110 3826 10057 3775 10081 3787 10109 TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 189DEG 66KT 3793 10096 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 23 min |
| Oct 6, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 26 min |
| Oct 7, 2:05 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 7, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 41 min |
| Oct 7, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 46 min |
| Oct 7, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 32 min |
| Oct 7, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 46 min |
| Oct 7, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 47 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.