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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 14, 2012Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2012, 11:41 PM CDT for Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 14, 2012, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2012, 12:04 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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.

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, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2712 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 445 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.0
Supercell composite: 30.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

920 
WUUS53 KDDC 150441
SVRDDC
KSC151-185-150530-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0035.120415T0441Z-120415T0530Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1141 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1139 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO TWO
  INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST. JOHN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ST. JOHN...
  STAFFORD...
  HUDSON...
  ZENITH...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN PRATT AND STAFFORD COUNTIES.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT. 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM. 

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 3782 9888 3808 9889 3827 9852 3827 9847
      3826 9847 3808 9846 3783 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 0441Z 246DEG 40KT 3797 9868
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 2.00IN

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

012 
WWUS53 KDDC 150504
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1204 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2012

KSC151-185-150513-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0035.000000T0000Z-120415T0530Z/
STAFFORD KS-PRATT KS-
1204 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PRATT AND STAFFORD 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 SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.

IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT. 

LAT...LON 3782 9888 3808 9889 3827 9852 3827 9847
      3826 9847 3808 9846 3783 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 0503Z 246DEG 40KT 3807 9840

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	38 min
Apr 14, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Meade	38 min
Apr 14, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	47 min
Apr 14, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	42 min
Apr 14, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Kiowa	27 min
Apr 14, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Pawnee, Rush	41 min
Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	31 min
Apr 14, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	23 min
Apr 14, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	33 min
Apr 14, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	20 min
Apr 14, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	19 min
Apr 14, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	48 min
Apr 14, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt and 1 more	39 min
Apr 15, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	52 min
Apr 15, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	18 min
Apr 15, 3:55 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	15 hr
Apr 15, 3:50 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	DDC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more	17 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.