Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2012, 3:10 PM CDT for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 14, 2012, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:37 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 8 E Buttermilk, KS | BRIEF LIVED FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF COLDWATER. STRONG ROTATION. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
150 WUUS53 KDDC 142010 SVRDDC KSC007-025-033-142100- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0024.120414T2010Z-120414T2100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 310 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 306 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTH OF SITKA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BUTTERMILK... COLDWATER... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF COMANCHE...SOUTHEASTERN CLARK AND WESTERN BARBER COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. && LAT...LON 3735 9936 3715 9896 3699 9920 3700 9962 TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 225DEG 37KT 3690 9955 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.75IN $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 21 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 10:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 50 min |
| Apr 14, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Lane, Scott | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 10:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 11:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 12:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Rush | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 1:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 11 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 17 min |
| Apr 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.