Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2011, 6:14 PM CDT for Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Grant County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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, 6:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Ulysses, KS | |
| Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 64 | N Hickok, KS | REPORT RELAYED FROM KSN. |
| Oct 7, 6:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Ulysses, KS | THE EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED A SEMI BLOWN OVER...SEVERAL POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN...AND THE ROOF OF AN OUT BUILDING BLOWN OFF...ALL AROUND THE EAST SIDE THE ULYSSES. |
| Oct 7, 6:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Ulysses, KS | |
| Oct 7, 6:57 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 8 Nne Hickok, 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, 11.2 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
- 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.
376 WUUS53 KDDC 072314 SVRDDC KSC067-189-080000- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0264.111007T2314Z-111008T0000Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 614 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTH CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 610 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 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUGOTON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ULYSSES... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF GRANT AND NORTHERN STEVENS 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. && LAT...LON 3773 10152 3773 10112 3727 10123 3722 10152 TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 184DEG 37KT 3735 10143 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
2 follow-up statements
971 WWUS53 KDDC 072327 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 627 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSC067-189-080000- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0264.000000T0000Z-111008T0000Z/ STEVENS KS-GRANT KS- 627 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT AND NORTH CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF ULYSSES...AND MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ULYSSES... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF GRANT AND NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3773 10152 3773 10112 3727 10123 3722 10152 TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 193DEG 45KT 3751 10131 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
170 WWUS53 KDDC 072353 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 653 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSC189-080003- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0264.000000T0000Z-111008T0000Z/ STEVENS KS- 653 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3773 10152 3773 10112 3747 10121 3747 10137 TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 205DEG 29KT 3764 10123 $$ KSC067-080000- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0264.000000T0000Z-111008T0000Z/ GRANT KS- 653 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HICKOK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HICKOK... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF GRANT COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3773 10152 3773 10112 3747 10121 3747 10137 TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 205DEG 29KT 3764 10123 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ 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, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 38 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 |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.