Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2012, 7:04 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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
- Jun 14, 2012, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Sw Dighton, KS | |
| Jun 14, 7:18 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Ssw Beeler, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 2789 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2283 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
193 WUUS53 KDDC 150004 SVRDDC KSC101-135-150100- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0131.120615T0004Z-120615T0100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 704 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... WESTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DIGHTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DIGHTON... PENDENNIS... ALAMOTA... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF LANE AND WESTERN NESS 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 3869 10020 3828 10023 3834 10064 3860 10065 TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 287DEG 16KT 3849 10042 WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.50IN $$ KRUSE
1 follow-up statement
098 WWUS53 KDDC 150054 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 754 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 KSC101-135-150104- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0131.000000T0000Z-120615T0100Z/ NESS KS-LANE KS- 754 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LANE AND WESTERN NESS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT/700 PM MDT/... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3869 10020 3828 10023 3834 10064 3860 10065 TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 287DEG 16KT 3842 10015 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 13 min |
| Jun 14, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 17 min |
| Jun 14, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 8:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 12 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 55 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.