Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 5:30 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 29, 2012, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 6:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 29, 5:31 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 Wnw Acres, KS | |
| May 29, 6:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 13 Sw Ashland, 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 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
383
WUUS53 KDDC 292230
SVRDDC
KSC025-292330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0099.120529T2230Z-120529T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
530 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ACRES...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ENGLEWOOD...
ACRES...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN CLARK 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 3716 9967 3708 9973 3701 9986 3704 10008
3724 10009
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 294DEG 12KT 3719 10003
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.75IN
$$
SUGDEN2 follow-up statements
850
WWUS53 KDDC 292247
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
547 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012
KSC025-292330-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0099.000000T0000Z-120529T2330Z/
CLARK KS-
547 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN CLARK
COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT...
AT 546 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ACRES...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ACRES...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE
SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3706 10005 3718 10005 3716 9967 3708 9973
3701 9986
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 294DEG 12KT 3710 9994
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.75IN
$$
SUGDEN333
WWUS53 KDDC 292311
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
611 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012
KSC025-292322-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0099.000000T0000Z-120529T2330Z/
CLARK KS-
611 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3706 10005 3718 10005 3716 9967 3708 9973
3701 9986
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 294DEG 12KT 3707 9985
$$
SUGDENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 56 min |
| May 29, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 64 min |
| May 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 56 min |
| May 29, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 35 min |
| May 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 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.