Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2012, 6:43 PM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 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), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
173 WUUS53 KDDC 272343 SVRDDC KSC051-195-280015- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0091.120527T2343Z-120528T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 643 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 639 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 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANTONINO...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ANTONINO... YOCEMENTO... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN TREGO 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 3894 9973 3893 9930 3871 9941 3871 9969 TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 183DEG 21KT 3875 9955 WIND...HAIL 70MPH 2.75IN $$ WAH
1 follow-up statement
456 WWUS53 KDDC 280009 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 709 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012 KSC051-195-280019- /O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0091.000000T0000Z-120528T0015Z/ TREGO KS-ELLIS KS- 709 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS AND SOUTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM CDT/615 PM MDT/... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3894 9973 3893 9930 3871 9941 3871 9969 TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 183DEG 21KT 3890 9954 $$ 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, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 47 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.