Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2012, 8:26 PM CDT for Ellis County, Ness County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- May 25, 2012, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ellis County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 25, 8:41 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 E Mccracken, KS | |
| May 25, 8:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Sw Hargrave, KS | |
| May 25, 8:50 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Wnw Liebenthal, KS | SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED, INCLUDING 6-8 INCH LIMBS BROKE AND UNKNOWN TREES FOUND AT THE PROPERTY. AN OVERHEAD DOOR AND WOODEN AWNING WERE BLOWN AWAY. |
| May 25, 9:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Nw Hargrave, KS | |
| May 25, 9:16 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Wnw Hargrave, KS | |
| May 25, 9:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 S Hargrave, KS | ELEPHANT TRUNK TORNADO |
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 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
306 WUUS53 KDDC 260126 SVRDDC KSC051-135-165-260215- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0078.120526T0126Z-120526T0215Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 826 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... EAST CENTRAL NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BAZINE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALEXANDER... MCCRACKEN... HARGRAVE... LIEBENTHAL... SCHOENCHEN... ANTONINO... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN NESS...NORTHWESTERN RUSH AND SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS 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 3889 9939 3862 9921 3843 9964 3849 9975 TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 224DEG 28KT 3851 9963 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN $$ WAH
1 follow-up statement
003 WWUS53 KDDC 260145 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 845 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012 KSC051-135-165-260215- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0078.000000T0000Z-120526T0215Z/ RUSH KS-NESS KS-ELLIS KS- 845 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ELLIS...EAST CENTRAL NESS AND NORTHWESTERN RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 840 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCCRACKEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MCCRACKEN... LIEBENTHAL... SCHOENCHEN... ANTONINO... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN NESS...NORTHWESTERN RUSH AND SOUTHERN ELLIS COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3889 9939 3862 9921 3843 9964 3849 9975 TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 224DEG 28KT 3862 9949 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN $$ WAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 50 min |
| May 25, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 51 min |
| May 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 23 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 31 min |
| May 25, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 34 min |
| May 25, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 26 min |
| May 25, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 46 min |
| May 25, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 37 min |
| May 25, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 50 min |
| May 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 26 min |
| May 25, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 14 min |
| May 25, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 28 min |
| May 25, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 17 min |
| May 26, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 43 min |
| May 26, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Ness | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 50 min |
| May 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 50 min |
| May 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Stevens | 59 min |
| May 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 22 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.