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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 27, 2012Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2012, 6:28 PM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 7 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 27, 2012, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 2.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
May 27, 6:30 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 N Yocemento, KS
May 27, 6:30 PM CDT	HAIL 1	9 E Cedar Bluff, KS
May 27, 6:32 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	4 Ese Ellis, KS
May 27, 6:34 PM CDT	HAIL 1	2 Nnw Yocemento, KS
May 27, 6:45 PM CDT	HAIL 1	8 W Antonino, KS
May 27, 6:47 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	8 W Antonino, KS
May 27, 7:14 PM CDT	HAIL 1	6 Nnw Hays, 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 27, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -355 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 381 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

846 
WUUS53 KDDC 272328
SVRDDC
KSC051-195-280015-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0090.120527T2328Z-120528T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
628 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP
  TO BASEBALL SIZE...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YOCEMENTO...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ANTONINO...
  YOCEMENTO...
  CATHARINE...
  EMMERAM...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF ELLIS AND NORTHEASTERN TREGO 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 3913 9903 3908 9903 3870 9938 3876 9968
      3914 9967 3914 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 205DEG 46KT 3885 9950
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 2.75IN

$$

WAH

1 follow-up statement

274 
WWUS53 KDDC 272339
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
639 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012

KSC195-272349-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0090.000000T0000Z-120528T0015Z/
TREGO KS-
639 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012

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

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

LAT...LON 3889 9934 3891 9957 3911 9960 3914 9959
      3914 9916
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 205DEG 46KT 3898 9942

$$

KSC051-280015-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0090.000000T0000Z-120528T0015Z/
ELLIS KS-
639 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN
ELLIS COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CDT...

AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO
BASEBALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED NEAR YOCEMENTO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  YOCEMENTO...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN ELLIS 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 3889 9934 3891 9957 3911 9960 3914 9959
      3914 9916
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 205DEG 46KT 3898 9942
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 2.75IN

$$

WAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens	48 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens	61 min
May 26, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Scott	47 min
May 26, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny, Scott	35 min
May 26, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	48 min
May 26, 10:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens	41 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Gray, Lane, Meade, Scott, Seward	49 min
May 27, 1:41 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	DDC	Scott	79 min
May 27, 4:57 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more	13 hr
May 27, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	29 min
May 27, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	50 min
May 27, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	40 min
May 27, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	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.