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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2012, 7:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.5 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
365 WUUS53 KDDC 150021 SVRDDC KSC055-069-081-119-150100- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0133.120615T0021Z-120615T0100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 721 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW CAPABLE OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH WELL AHEAD OF THE STORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COPELAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TICE... COPELAND... MONTEZUMA... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF HASKELL...NORTHWESTERN MEADE...SOUTHERN FINNEY AND SOUTHERN GRAY 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 3775 10023 3740 10024 3739 10104 3774 10094 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 248DEG 13KT 3763 10069 WIND...HAIL 70MPH <.50IN $$ KRUSE
1 follow-up statement
479 WWUS53 KDDC 150058 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 758 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 KSC055-069-081-119-150109- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0133.000000T0000Z-120615T0100Z/ MEADE KS-HASKELL KS-GRAY KS-FINNEY KS- 758 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL FINNEY...SOUTHERN GRAY...HASKELL AND NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT/700 PM MDT/... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3775 10023 3740 10024 3739 10104 3775 10094 TIME...MOT...LOC 0059Z 248DEG 13KT 3768 10053 $$ 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, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 13 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 |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.