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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2011, 5:27 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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
- Jun 16, 2011, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2011, 6:15 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 Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 16, 6:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 Nw Cullison, KS | |
| Jun 16, 6:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Nw Cullison, KS | |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Ese Croft, KS | ONLY A FEW HAIL STONES FELL. |
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 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 516 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
042 WUUS53 KDDC 162227 SVRDDC KSC007-033-097-151-162315- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0092.110616T2227Z-110616T2315Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 527 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 522 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 SOUTHWEST OF SUN CITY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SUN CITY... BELVIDERE... CROFT... COATS... WELLSFORD... CULLISON... PRATT... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN KIOWA...NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE... NORTHWESTERN BARBER AND SOUTHERN PRATT 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 3771 9919 3771 9856 3721 9886 3725 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 2227Z 196DEG 27KT 3736 9897 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ JJOHNSON
1 follow-up statement
343 WWUS53 KDDC 162250 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 550 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 KSC007-033-097-151-162315- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-110616T2315Z/ PRATT KS-KIOWA KS-BARBER KS-COMANCHE KS- 550 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE...NORTHWESTERN BARBER...EASTERN KIOWA AND SOUTHERN PRATT COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 546 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SUN CITY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SUN CITY... CROFT... COATS... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN KIOWA...NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE... NORTHWESTERN BARBER AND SOUTHERN PRATT COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3771 9919 3771 9856 3721 9886 3725 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 196DEG 27KT 3737 9898 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ JJOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness, Rush, Trego | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Stafford | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush, Trego | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee | 31 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.