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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 30, 2012Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2012, 4:37 PM CDT for Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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: May 30, 2012, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ellis County, KS, Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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
May 30, 4:39 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	5 Ne Pfeifer, KS
May 30, 4:42 PM CDT	HAIL 2.5	5 Ne Pfeifer, KS
May 30, 4:44 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	5 Ne Pfeifer, 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
May 30, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

097 
WUUS53 KDDC 302137
SVRDDC
KSC051-165-302200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0104.120530T2137Z-120530T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
437 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 432 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  TOULON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TOULON...
  VICTORIA...
  EMMERAM...
  WALKER...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN RUSH AND SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS
  COUNTIES.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING.

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 3870 9904 3869 9902 3865 9903 3865 9912
      3877 9932 3894 9931 3906 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2137Z 263DEG 26KT 3884 9919
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.75IN

$$

SUGDEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	62 min
May 30, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	56 min
May 30, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	64 min
May 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	56 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	63 min
May 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	55 min
May 30, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	58 min
May 30, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	65 min
May 30, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	58 min
May 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	67 min
May 30, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	28 min
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	59 min
May 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	63 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.