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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 30, 20114 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2011, 10:53 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 52 min. 2 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: May 30, 2011, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2011, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edwards County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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
May 30, 11:19 PM CDT	HAIL 0.25	4 Sse Frizell, KS
May 30, 11:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Larned, KS	ALSO RECEIVED 1/2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL.

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
May 30, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch PDS	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1933 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 16.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

073 
WUUS53 KDDC 310353
SVRDDC
KSC047-083-145-185-310445-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0057.110531T0353Z-110531T0445Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1053 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
  PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1050 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
  SANFORD...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SANFORD...
  ASH VALLEY...
  LARNED...
  MACKSVILLE...
  RADIUM...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN EDWARDS...NORTHWESTERN STAFFORD...
  PAWNEE AND SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN 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 3790 9895 3792 9971 3835 9946 3835 9903
      3827 9902 3826 9875
TIME...MOT...LOC 0353Z 249DEG 35KT 3822 9931
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

007 
WWUS53 KDDC 310439
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1139 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2011

KSC083-310449-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0057.000000T0000Z-110531T0445Z/
HODGEMAN KS-
1139 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3790 9895 3791 9934 3828 9907 3827 9904
      3827 9902 3826 9875
TIME...MOT...LOC 0439Z 266DEG 56KT 3816 9901

$$

KSC047-145-185-310445-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0057.000000T0000Z-110531T0445Z/
STAFFORD KS-PAWNEE KS-EDWARDS KS-
1139 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL
EDWARDS...EASTERN PAWNEE AND NORTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTIES UNTIL
1145 PM CDT...

AT 1138 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
LARNED...AND MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LARNED...
  RADIUM...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN EDWARDS...EASTERN PAWNEE AND
  NORTHWESTERN STAFFORD 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 3790 9895 3791 9934 3828 9907 3827 9904
      3827 9902 3826 9875
TIME...MOT...LOC 0439Z 266DEG 56KT 3816 9901
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
May 30, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	47 min
May 30, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	48 min
May 30, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	48 min
May 30, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	42 min
May 30, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	48 min
May 30, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	46 min
May 30, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	38 min
May 31, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	52 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.