Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2012, 7:49 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hodgeman County, KS, Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 7:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 12 Ssw Ness City, 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
504 WUUS53 KDDC 070049 SVRDDC KSC083-135-070130- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0177.120907T0049Z-120907T0130Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 749 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NESS CITY...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN HODGEMAN AND SOUTHERN NESS COUNTIES. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT ACROSS SOUTHWEST NESS 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 3840 9963 3816 9974 3826 10011 3844 10005 TIME...MOT...LOC 0048Z 289DEG 22KT 3833 9998 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
342 WWUS53 KDDC 070122 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 822 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2012 KSC083-135-070132- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0177.000000T0000Z-120907T0130Z/ NESS KS-HODGEMAN KS- 822 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL HODGEMAN AND SOUTH CENTRAL NESS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT/730 PM MDT/... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3840 9963 3816 9974 3826 10011 3844 10005 TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 289DEG 22KT 3826 9973 $$ RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 38 min |
| 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, 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.