Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2012, 8:15 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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, 8:24 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Sw Ensign, 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1860 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
998
WUUS53 KDDC 310115
SVRDDC
KSC025-057-069-097-119-310215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0118.120531T0115Z-120531T0215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
815 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
WEST CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM DODGE CITY TO THE HAGGARD
ELEV...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ENSIGN...
THE HAGGARD ELEV...
FT. DODGE...
FORD...
MINNEOLA...
BUCKLIN...
CLARK STATE LAKE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN MEADE...NORTHERN CLARK...
SOUTHEASTERN GRAY...SOUTHWESTERN FORD AND WESTERN KIOWA 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.
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WERE REPORTED IN DODGE CITY WITH THIS
STORM. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM... SEEK SAFE SHELTER AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
&&
LAT...LON 3752 9938 3713 10006 3742 10028 3765 10039
3782 10008
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 314DEG 33KT 3780 9999 3763 10034
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.00IN
$$
SUGDEN2 follow-up statements
566
WWUS53 KDDC 310143
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
843 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
KSC069-310153-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0118.000000T0000Z-120531T0215Z/
GRAY KS-
843 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA.
LAT...LON 3737 10022 3747 10026 3748 10021 3751 10021
3764 9973 3752 9938 3713 10006
TIME...MOT...LOC 0143Z 314DEG 33KT 3754 9963 3747 10011
$$
KSC025-057-097-119-310215-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0118.000000T0000Z-120531T0215Z/
MEADE KS-KIOWA KS-CLARK KS-FORD KS-
843 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN
FORD...NORTHERN CLARK...WEST CENTRAL KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN MEADE
COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...
AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM BUCKLIN TO 9 MILES NORTH OF FOWLER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BUCKLIN...
MINNEOLA...
CLARK STATE LAKE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN MEADE...NORTHERN CLARK...
SOUTHERN FORD AND WESTERN KIOWA 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 3737 10022 3747 10026 3748 10021 3751 10021
3764 9973 3752 9938 3713 10006
TIME...MOT...LOC 0143Z 314DEG 33KT 3754 9963 3747 10011
WIND...HAIL 60MPH <.50IN
$$
SUGDEN448
WWUS53 KDDC 310207
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
907 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
KSC025-057-097-119-310216-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0118.000000T0000Z-120531T0215Z/
MEADE KS-KIOWA KS-CLARK KS-FORD KS-
907 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN FORD...NORTHERN
CLARK...WEST CENTRAL KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTIES HAS
BEEN REISSUED...
PLEASE REFER TO THAT BULLETIN FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER
INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3737 10022 3747 10026 3748 10021 3751 10021
3764 9973 3752 9938 3713 10006
TIME...MOT...LOC 0206Z 314DEG 33KT 3738 9945 3732 9993
$$
SUGDENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 26 min |
| May 30, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 41 min |
| May 30, 7:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 6 hr |
| May 30, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 15 min |
| May 30, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee | 60 min |
| May 30, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 64 min |
| May 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa and 2 more | 40 min |
| May 30, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 59 min |
| May 30, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| May 31, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 42 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.