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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2012, 6:48 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. 6 reports 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 29, 2012, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2012, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 6:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 9 Ssw Charleston, KS | |
| Apr 29, 6:54 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 7 Nw Montezuma, KS | THE WIND WAS PICKING UP CONSIDERABLE DUST. |
| Apr 29, 6:58 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 15 Wsw Cimarron, KS | SMALL BRANCHES BLOWN DOWN |
| Apr 29, 7:13 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 66 | 5 S Ingalls, KS | |
| Apr 29, 7:13 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 S Ingalls, KS | |
| Apr 29, 7:32 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 40 | 4 Sw Ensign, KS | DIME SIZE HAIL AS WELL |
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 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
209 WUUS53 KDDC 292348 SVRDDC KSC069-300030- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0046.120429T2348Z-120430T0030Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 648 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLESTON... AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MONTEZUMA... THE HAGGARD ELEV... ENSIGN... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN GRAY 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 3778 10022 3748 10022 3760 10065 3781 10065 TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 298DEG 25KT 3771 10062 WIND...HAIL 60MPH <.50IN $$ 18
1 follow-up statement
080 WWUS53 KDDC 300003 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 703 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2012 KSC069-300030- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-120430T0030Z/ GRAY KS- 703 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 659 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE DAMAGING WINDS. AT 654 PM WINDS GUSTING TO 70 MPH WAS REPORTED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MONTEZUMA... THE HAGGARD ELEV... ENSIGN... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED WEAK TO MODERATE ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. && LAT...LON 3778 10022 3748 10022 3760 10065 3781 10065 TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 282DEG 25KT 3770 10050 WIND...HAIL 70MPH 0.75IN $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 59 min |
| Apr 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 50 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.