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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 25, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2014, 6:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ellis County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 E Brownell, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 10 minutes after it went out.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551 WUUS53 KDDC 252245 SVRDDC KSC051-135-165-195-252345- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0231.140825T2245Z-140825T2345Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 545 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... EASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF MCCRACKEN...OR 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYS. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HAYS...SCHOENCHEN...ELLIS...RIGA...ANTONINO AND YOCEMENTO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3911 9971 3911 9914 3858 9938 3856 9975 TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 230DEG 11KT 3866 9959 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
3 follow-up statements
639 WWUS53 KDDC 252306 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 KSC051-135-165-195-252345- /O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0231.000000T0000Z-140825T2345Z/ TREGO KS-RUSH KS-NESS KS-ELLIS KS- 606 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ELLIS... NORTHEASTERN NESS...NORTHWESTERN RUSH AND EASTERN TREGO COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT... AT 606 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED...PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF HAYS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HAYS...ELLIS...YOCEMENTO AND RIGA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3911 9971 3911 9914 3858 9938 3856 9975 TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 174DEG 8KT 3886 9945 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
694 WWUS53 KDDC 252310 CCA SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 KSC051-135-165-195-252345- /O.COR.KDDC.SV.W.0231.000000T0000Z-140825T2345Z/ TREGO KS-RUSH KS-NESS KS-ELLIS KS- 606 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ELLIS... NORTHEASTERN NESS...NORTHWESTERN RUSH AND EASTERN TREGO COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT... AT 606 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLIS...OR 10 MILES WEST OF HAYS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ELLIS...YOCEMENTO AND RIGA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3911 9971 3911 9914 3858 9938 3856 9975 TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 162DEG 17KT 3885 9950 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
381 WWUS53 KDDC 252324 RRA SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 624 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 KSC051-135-165-195-252335- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0231.000000T0000Z-140825T2345Z/ TREGO KS-RUSH KS-NESS KS-ELLIS KS- 624 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ELLIS...NORTHEASTERN NESS... NORTHWESTERN RUSH AND EASTERN TREGO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3911 9971 3911 9914 3858 9938 3856 9975 TIME...MOT...LOC 2325Z 162DEG 17KT 3894 9954 $$
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 Aug 25, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 324 PM CDT Mon Aug 25 2014 ...Updated for long term discussion... .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Tuesday) ISSUED AT 241 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 A COLD FRONT HAS SAGGED SOUTHWARD AND AUGMENTED BY EARLIER CONVECTION WAS LOCATED BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND HAYS. THIS BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO BE NEARLY STATIONARY INTO THIS EVENING. THE BOUNDARY WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS. MODERATE INSTABILITY WITH CAPE FORECAST OF AROUND 2500 J/KG NEAR AND NORTH OF THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY. COULD SEE SOME STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS OF 50 MPH OR HIGHER AND SOME SMALL HAIL. A FEW STORMS COULD APPROACH NEAR SEVERE LIMITS INTO THE EVENING. WEAK MID LEVEL WIND FIELDS AND SHEAR SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP MOST STORMS BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR STORMS WILL BE GENERALLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 AND INTO THE I-70 CORRIDOR. ALSO SOME POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THOSE AREAS IF THUNDERSTORMS CAN TRAIN OVER THE SAME AREAS. WILL KEEP SMALL POPS GOING SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY INTO THE OVERNIGHT PERIODS. SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE TOWARDS MORNING WITH OUTFLOWS CAUSING THE FRONT TO SAG MORE SOUTH INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE MILD IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S. PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NEAR SAINT JOHN TO COLDWATER AND EAST MAY NOT SEE ANY STORMS AND BE WARMER OVERNIGHT AROUND 70. FOR TUESDAY, WILL CONTINUE WITH 20 TO 30 PERCENT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS, MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON, GENERALLY WEST OF A LARNED TO COLDWATER LINE. THUNDERSTORMS MAY AGAIN FORM WHERE ANY BOUNDARIES ARE LEFT OVER. WEAKER INSTABILITY AND WIND FIELDS SHOULD PRECLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE THEN BECOMING SOUTHEASTERLY 15 TO 20 MPH UNDER PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. HIGHS WILL BE COOLER WITH MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW AND RESIDUAL CLOUDINESS MAINLY EAST OF DODGE CITY. HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM THE LOW TO MID 90S WEST OF DODGE CITY TO THE MID AND UPPER 90S EAST. .LONG TERM...(Tuesday night through Monday) ISSUED AT 304 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 An upper level low over the western United States will slowly progress eastward and pass across western Kansas by Friday. Ahead of this feature, low level moisture will be plentiful and 700mb temperatures will cool to around 10C. The best chance of the more widespread and heavy rainfall through Wednesday will be along and north of a stalled out frontal boundary across northern Kansas and points northward from there where low to mid level moisture will be plentiful. Mid level temperatures are progged to cool to around 10C through Wednesday across southwest Kansas so that isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible even south of the front. By Thursday and Friday as the upper level system gets closer and mid level temperatures drop further, the chance for widespread thunderstorm activity will increase across southwestern Kansas, along with cooler temperatures. High temperatures will still be in the lower 90s on Wednesday, and then fall into the 80s by Thursday and Friday as cloud cover and precipitation increase. The ECMWF is slower to bring this system through western Kansas with the GFS the most progressive. But it does appear that the significant rainfall will be over by Friday night. A slow warming trend can be expected thereafter as the mid level flow becomes more westerly across the Rockies, with lee troughing becoming established. Thunderstorm activity may increase again sometime early next week as low level moisture surges north from the Gulf of Mexico along the southern edge of the westerlies. But mid level temperatures will once again become quite warm so that mid level capping may suppress convection. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Tuesday afternoon) ISSUED AT 1222 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 A cold frontal boundary is forecast to be stalled out between KGCK and KHYS into this evening with southeasterly winds, south of the boundary and northeasterly winds 10-20kt north of the boundary. Some thunderstorms may develop up near this boundary towards 01-03Z time frame in the KHYS area into the night. The frontal boundary likely to sag south towards morning into the KGCK and KDDC areas with light and variable winds. VFR conditions are anticipated expect in thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms in the KHYS area may produce strong outflow winds to 50kt and small hail. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 68 95 69 92 / 20 30 30 30 GCK 66 93 68 90 / 30 40 40 40 EHA 66 93 66 89 / 20 40 30 40 LBL 67 94 68 92 / 20 40 30 40 HYS 65 94 68 91 / 60 40 50 50 P28 72 99 73 96 / 20 10 10 30 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...Kruse LONG TERM...Finch AVIATION...Kruse
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:00 AM CDT, 13 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 400 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-260900- 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- 400 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 /300 AM MDT MON AUG 25 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 WILL INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE DURING THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. A FEW OF THESE STORMS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 EARLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY, MAINLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT THIS TIME THE MAIN HAZARD APPEARS TO BE WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK. A FEW STRONG STORMS MID TO LATE WEEK WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED EARLY TONIGHT NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC BURGERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 254 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 KSZ084-085-252030- MORTON-STEVENS- 254 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MORTON AND STEVENS COUNTIES... AT 252 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA...OR 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3739 10154 3730 10136 3716 10158 3730 10166 TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 232DEG 7KT 3727 10156 CARUSO
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 438 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 KSZ062-063-252230- FINNEY-KEARNY- 438 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FINNEY AND KEARNY COUNTIES... AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN...OR 24 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. && LAT...LON 3824 10142 3820 10106 3788 10116 3795 10147 TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 200DEG 7KT 3801 10130
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 36 min |
| Aug 25, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 25 min |
| Aug 25, 5:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Ness | 19 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.