Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2012, 7:07 PM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Sep 6, 2012, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2012, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 S Ft. Dodge, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
663 WUUS53 KDDC 070007 SVRDDC KSC025-057-070045- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0173.120907T0007Z-120907T0045Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 707 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 702 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 11 MILES NORTH OF MINNEOLA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLOOM... FORD... KINGSDOWN... CLARK STATE LAKE... BUCKLIN... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN FORD COUNTIES. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR FORD 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 3762 9957 3736 9978 3756 10014 3770 10011 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 297DEG 26KT 3758 10002 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
672 WWUS53 KDDC 070030 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 730 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2012 KSC025-057-070045- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0173.000000T0000Z-120907T0045Z/ CLARK KS-FORD KS- 730 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN FORD AND NORTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BLOOM...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLOOM... KINGSDOWN... CLARK STATE LAKE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN CLARK AND SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3750 10003 3768 9998 3762 9957 3736 9978 TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 296DEG 21KT 3752 9984 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 50 min |
| Sep 6, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 47 min |
| Sep 6, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 46 min |
| Sep 6, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 41 min |
| Sep 6, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 44 min |
| Sep 6, 11:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.