Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2012, 5:55 PM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 2, 2012, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Gray County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 2, 6:08 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 6 Nne Meade, KS | |
| Apr 2, 6:18 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 4 W Fowler, KS | |
| Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 9 S Montezuma, KS | |
| Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 9 Ssw Montezuma, KS | |
| Apr 2, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 Ese Copeland, KS | HAIL ESTIMATED PEA TO QUARTER SIZED. |
| Apr 2, 6:46 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 8 S Montezuma, KS |
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 2, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 4253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
523 WUUS53 KDDC 022255 SVRDDC KSC069-119-022345- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0006.120402T2255Z-120402T2345Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 555 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTH CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MEADE...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MEADE... MISSLER... MONTEZUMA... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN MEADE AND SOUTHERN GRAY 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 3753 10066 3773 10033 3730 10013 3721 10032 TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 147DEG 18KT 3733 10028 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ WAH
1 follow-up statement
972
WWUS53 KDDC 022305
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
605 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012
KSC069-119-022345-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120402T2345Z/
MEADE KS-GRAY KS-
605 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN GRAY
AND NORTH CENTRAL MEADE COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT...
AT 604 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO TWO
INCHES IN DIAMETER. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF MEADE...
AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONTEZUMA...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN MEADE AND SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE
SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3753 10066 3753 10065 3773 10033 3735 10020
3728 10033
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 147DEG 18KT 3737 10031
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 2.00IN
$$
WAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush, Trego | 40 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.