Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2011, 6:42 PM CDT for Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 11, 2011, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2011, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 W Liberal, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1356 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
323 WUUS53 KDDC 112342 SVRDDC KSC175-189-120030- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0080.110611T2342Z-110612T0030Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 642 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 640 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 SOUTHWEST OF WOODS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WOODS... LIBERAL... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN STEVENS AND SOUTHWESTERN SEWARD 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 3732 10104 3703 10088 3701 10120 3720 10131 TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 236DEG 17KT 3710 10120 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ SUGDEN
2 follow-up statements
823 WWUS53 KDDC 120010 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 710 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2011 KSC175-189-120030- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0080.000000T0000Z-110612T0030Z/ STEVENS KS-SEWARD KS- 710 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN SEWARD AND SOUTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF TYRONE...OR 9 MILES WEST OF LIBERAL...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LIBERAL... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN STEVENS AND SOUTHWESTERN SEWARD COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3710 10094 3703 10093 3702 10119 3712 10119 TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 273DEG 13KT 3703 10108 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ SUGDEN
397 WWUS53 KDDC 120023 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 723 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2011 KSC175-189-120033- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0080.000000T0000Z-110612T0030Z/ STEVENS KS-SEWARD KS- 723 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN SEWARD AND SOUTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 730 PM CDT/630 PM MDT/... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3710 10094 3703 10093 3702 10119 3712 10119 TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 273DEG 13KT 3703 10100 $$ SUGDEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:02 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:09 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton, Hodgeman and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 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.