Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2012, 8:23 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 4 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
- Apr 2, 2012, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2012, 8:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 Ssw Hanston, KS | |
| Apr 2, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Sw Hanston, KS | |
| Apr 2, 8:33 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Hanston, KS | |
| Apr 2, 8:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Wsw Gray, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 1701 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
832 WUUS53 KDDC 030123 SVRDDC KSC083-030215- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0010.120403T0123Z-120403T0215Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 823 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 820 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HANSTON...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HANSTON... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HODGEMAN 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 3826 10009 3826 9964 3804 9960 3797 9982 TIME...MOT...LOC 0123Z 149DEG 23KT 3812 9976 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
2 follow-up statements
654 WWUS53 KDDC 030147 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 847 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012 KSC083-030215- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120403T0215Z/ HODGEMAN KS- 847 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANSTON...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HANSTON... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3826 10009 3826 9964 3804 9960 3797 9982 TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 150DEG 15KT 3817 9981 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
651 WWUS53 KDDC 030157 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 857 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012 KSC083-030207- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120403T0215Z/ HODGEMAN KS- 857 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3826 10009 3826 9964 3804 9960 3797 9982 TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 150DEG 15KT 3821 9984 $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 10 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 11:50 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Pratt, Stafford | 46 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.