Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2012, 8:38 PM CDT for Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 3, 2012, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 9:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Grant County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
601 WUUS53 KDDC 040138 SVRDDC KSC067-189-040245- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0157.120804T0138Z-120804T0245Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 838 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 835 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF FETERITA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MOSCOW... CAVE... RYUS... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN STEVENS AND SOUTHEASTERN GRANT 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 3755 10111 3730 10108 3717 10156 3737 10155 TIME...MOT...LOC 0138Z 247DEG 18KT 3728 10148 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ KRUSE
3 follow-up statements
188 WWUS53 KDDC 040201 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 901 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 KSC067-189-040245- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0157.000000T0000Z-120804T0245Z/ STEVENS KS-GRANT KS- 901 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRANT AND NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CDT... AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF HUGOTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MOSCOW... CAVE... RYUS... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN STEVENS AND SOUTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3727 10145 3737 10150 3755 10111 3730 10108 TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 247DEG 18KT 3732 10135 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ KRUSE
869 WWUS53 KDDC 040220 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 920 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 KSC067-189-040245- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0157.000000T0000Z-120804T0245Z/ STEVENS KS-GRANT KS- 920 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRANT AND NORTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CDT... AT 919 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAVE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CAVE... RYUS... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN STEVENS AND SOUTHEASTERN GRANT 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 3729 10121 3741 10135 3755 10111 3730 10108 TIME...MOT...LOC 0220Z 257DEG 32KT 3736 10111 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ KRUSE
028 WWUS53 KDDC 040229 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 929 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 KSC067-189-040239- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0157.000000T0000Z-120804T0245Z/ STEVENS KS-GRANT KS- 929 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRANT AND NORTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3729 10121 3741 10135 3755 10111 3730 10108 TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 257DEG 32KT 3738 10101 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 7 more | 101 min |
| Aug 4, 1:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.