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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 30, 2012Ford County, Gray County, Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2012, 5:31 PM CDT for Ford County, Gray County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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 30, 2012, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 2.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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 30, 5:59 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	10 Nnw Wright, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

045 
WUUS53 KDDC 302231
SVRDDC
KSC057-069-083-302330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0050.120430T2231Z-120430T2330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
531 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
  SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP 
  TO TENNIS BALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 
  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF HOWELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 30  
  MPH. THIS STORM REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BELLEFONT...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN GRAY...NORTHERN FORD AND
  SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES.

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 3785 10028 3799 10032 3811 9962 3787 9959
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 262DEG 25KT 3792 10019
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 2.50IN

$$

SUGDEN

2 follow-up statements

168 
WWUS53 KDDC 302256
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
556 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012

KSC069-302306-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-120430T2330Z/
GRAY KS-
556 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3792 10023 3799 10023 3811 9962 3787 9959
      3786 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 262DEG 25KT 3794 9996

$$

KSC057-083-302330-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-120430T2330Z/
HODGEMAN KS-FORD KS-
556 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN FORD
AND SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CDT...

AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO
TENNIS BALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JETMORE...AND MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BELLEFONT...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN FORD AND SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES.

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 3792 10023 3799 10023 3811 9962 3787 9959
      3786 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 262DEG 25KT 3794 9996
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 2.50IN

$$

SUGDEN

956 
WWUS53 KDDC 302307
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
607 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012

KSC057-083-302330-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-120430T2330Z/
HODGEMAN KS-FORD KS-
607 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
FORD AND SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CDT...

AT 604 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PING PONG 
BALL SIZE HAIL 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WRIGHT. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES 
SOUTH OF JETMORE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN FORD AND SOUTHERN HODGEMAN
  COUNTIES.

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 3790 10012 3799 10017 3811 9962 3789 9959
      3788 10003
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 263DEG 14KT 3794 9992
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.50IN

$$

SUGDEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	47 min
Apr 29, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	49 min
Apr 29, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	34 min
Apr 30, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	40 min
Apr 30, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	42 min
Apr 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	21 min
Apr 30, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	33 min
Apr 30, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	48 min
Apr 30, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	47 min
Apr 30, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	40 min
Apr 30, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	25 min
Apr 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee	46 min
Apr 30, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa	30 min
Apr 30, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	43 min
Apr 30, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	36 min
Apr 30, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	32 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.