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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2012, 6:08 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
- May 19, 2012, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2012, 6:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:18 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 17 Se Medicine Lodge, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
260
WUUS53 KDDC 192308
SVRDDC
KSC007-200000-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0069.120519T2308Z-120520T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
608 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HAZELTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KIOWA...
HAZELTON...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN BARBER 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 3700 9835 3700 9870 3725 9835 3724 9834
3720 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 230DEG 20KT 3709 9846
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.50IN
$$
RUSSELL1 follow-up statement
647
WWUS53 KDDC 192331
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
631 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
KSC007-192341-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0069.000000T0000Z-120520T0000Z/
BARBER KS-
631 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3700 9835 3700 9870 3725 9835 3724 9834
3720 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 230DEG 20KT 3717 9834
$$
RUSSELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:40 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 23 min |
| May 19, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 48 min |
| May 19, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 min |
| May 19, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 22 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.