Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 2, 2012, 10:41 PM CST for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Feb 2, 2012, 10:41 PM CST (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2012, 11:16 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 10:45 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | 5 Ne Hardtner, KS | |
| Feb 2, 10:56 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | 3 S Sharon, KS | PEA TO PENNY-SIZED HAIL COVERED THE GROUND. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KDDC 030441
SVRDDC
KSC007-151-030530-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0001.120203T0441Z-120203T0530Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1041 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CST
* AT 1039 PM CST...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 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF KIOWA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KIOWA...
HAZELTON...
MEDICINE LODGE...
SHARON...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN BARBER AND SOUTHEASTERN 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 3699 9849 3699 9855 3707 9870 3751 9846
3739 9846 3739 9835 3738 9834 3713 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0441Z 215DEG 37KT 3710 9854
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$
WAH2 follow-up statements
085
WWUS53 KDDC 030502
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1102 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012
KSC151-030511-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120203T0530Z/
PRATT KS-
1102 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PRATT
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3713 9834 3706 9843 3722 9855 3728 9857
3739 9841 3739 9846 3739 9835 3738 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0501Z 215DEG 37KT 3727 9839
$$
KSC007-030530-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120203T0530Z/
BARBER KS-
1102 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL
BARBER COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CST...
AT 1056 PM CST...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
SHARON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHARON...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN BARBER 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 3713 9834 3706 9843 3722 9855 3728 9857
3739 9841 3739 9846 3739 9835 3738 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0501Z 215DEG 37KT 3727 9839
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$
WAH660
WWUS53 KDDC 030516
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1116 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012
KSC007-030526-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120203T0530Z/
BARBER KS-
1116 PM CST THU FEB 2 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN DODGE CITY.
LAT...LON 3713 9834 3706 9843 3722 9855 3728 9857
3739 9841 3739 9846 3739 9835 3738 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 0516Z 215DEG 37KT 3740 9828
$$
WAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 10:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 39 min |
| Feb 2, 11:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 52 min |
| Feb 3, 1:03 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 42 min |
| Feb 3, 2:48 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 20 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:10 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DDC | Trego | 8 hr |
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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.