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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 25, 2012Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2012, 7:10 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 25, 2012, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2012, 7:39 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

529 
WUUS53 KDDC 260010
SVRDDC
KSC195-260100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0149.120726T0010Z-120726T0100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
710 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 706 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 
  WITH UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR VODA...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.


* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  VODA...
  WAKEENEY...
  TREGO CENTER...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY.

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 3885 9973 3883 10009 3911 10008 3912 10000
      3912 9987
TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 350DEG 18KT 3907 9997
WIND...HAIL 70MPH <.50IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

800 
WWUS53 KDDC 260039
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
739 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

KSC195-260049-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0149.000000T0000Z-120726T0100Z/
TREGO KS-
739 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3885 9973 3883 10009 3911 10008 3912 10000
      3912 9987
TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 350DEG 18KT 3908 9998

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	41 min
Jul 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	60 min
Jul 25, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	39 min
Jul 25, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	39 min
Jul 25, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	38 min
Jul 25, 11:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2012 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012

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.