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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2013, 2:46 PM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2013, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 31, 2:40 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:40 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 3:49 AM CDT, 10 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 349 AM CDT WED JUL 31 2013 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-011000- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 349 AM CDT WED JUL 31 2013 /249 AM MDT WED JUL 31 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS, SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE, ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS, THEN INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND EXPAND SOUTHEASTWARD INTO MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING. HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE, DAMAGING OUTFLOW WINDS OF GREATER THAN 60 MPH, FREQUENT LIGHTNING, AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN MAINLY ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH, AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS EACH DAY FROM FRIDAY INTO TUESDAY. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS FROM MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 06
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 2:24 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
224 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013
KSZ043-044-312030-
LANE-SCOTT-
224 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN SCOTT AND NORTHERN
LANE COUNTIES...
AT 222 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR HEALY...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 5 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
RESIDENTS IN NORTHEASTERN SCOTT AND NORTHERN LANE COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HEALY AND DIGHTON...SHOULD MONITOR THE
WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE
PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.
LAT...LON 3856 10035 3839 10059 3863 10083 3870 10084
3871 10058
TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 315DEG 6KT 3859 10060
SUGDENSpecial weather statement, Jul 31, 2:31 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 231 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013 KSZ063-064-077-312030- FINNEY-GRAY-HODGEMAN- 231 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN FINNEY...NORTHEASTERN GRAY AND WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES... AT 227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR KALVESTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS IN EASTERN FINNEY...NORTHEASTERN GRAY AND WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF KALVESTA...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. LAT...LON 3801 10002 3793 10027 3814 10042 3821 10023 TIME...MOT...LOC 1932Z 325DEG 6KT 3809 10026 SUGDEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 66 min |
| Jul 31, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 59 min |
| Jul 31, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 4:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward | 53 min |
| Jul 31, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.