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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 30, 2012Ness County, Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2012, 5:20 PM CDT for Ness County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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: May 30, 2012, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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
May 30, 5:24 PM CDT	HAIL 2	Alexander, KS
May 30, 5:24 PM CDT	HAIL 2.5	1 E Alexander, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.

421 
WUUS53 KDDC 302220
SVRDDC
KSC135-165-302315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0106.120530T2220Z-120530T2315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 514 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS     
  LOCATED NEAR ALEXANDER...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. MORE STORMS 
  ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS NESS COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALEXANDER...
  NEKOMA...
  HARGRAVE...
  RUSH CENTER...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN NESS AND RUSH 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 3865 9925 3836 9913 3836 9966 3844 9987
      3865 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 260DEG 11KT 3844 9952
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN

$$

SUGDEN

3 follow-up statements

407 
WWUS53 KDDC 302229
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
529 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

KSC135-165-302315-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0106.000000T0000Z-120530T2315Z/
RUSH KS-NESS KS-
529 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL
NESS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...

AT 512 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 1 MILE SOUTH OF ALEXANDER. THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED NEAR ALEXANDER...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALEXANDER...
  NEKOMA...
  HARGRAVE...
  RUSH CENTER...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN NESS AND RUSH 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 3865 9925 3836 9913 3836 9966 3844 9987
      3865 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 260DEG 11KT 3844 9948
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.75IN

$$

SUGDEN

389 
WWUS53 KDDC 302241
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
541 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

KSC135-165-302315-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0106.000000T0000Z-120530T2315Z/
RUSH KS-NESS KS-
541 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL
NESS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...

AT 524 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZE 1 MILE EAST OF 
ALEXANDER. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEKOMA...AND MOVING EAST AT 
15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEKOMA...
  HARGRAVE...
  RUSH CENTER...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN NESS AND RUSH 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 3865 9925 3836 9913 3836 9966 3844 9987
      3865 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2240Z 260DEG 11KT 3844 9944
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 2.50IN

$$

SUGDEN

942 
WWUS53 KDDC 302311
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
611 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

KSC135-165-302321-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0106.000000T0000Z-120530T2315Z/
RUSH KS-NESS KS-
611 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL NESS AND RUSH 
COUNTIES HAS BEEN REISSUED...

PLEASE REFER TO THAT BULLETIN FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER
INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3865 9925 3836 9913 3836 9966 3844 9987
      3865 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 260DEG 11KT 3846 9932

$$

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, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	23 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	63 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.