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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 2012, 6:00 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Nov 10, 2012, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2012, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:14 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 Se Haviland, KS | NICKEL SIZED HAIL ALSO OCCURRED WITH THE WIND. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
226 WUUS53 KDDC 110000 SVRDDC KSC007-033-097-151-110030- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0189.121111T0000Z-121111T0030Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 559 PM CST...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 WILMORE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILMORE... BELVIDERE... CROFT... WELLSFORD... CULLISON... PRATT... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN KIOWA...NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE... NORTHWESTERN BARBER AND SOUTHERN PRATT COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! 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 3772 9921 3771 9847 3714 9917 3728 9937 TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 218DEG 57KT 3734 9923 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Stafford | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa and 1 more | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 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.