Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2014, 10:54 PM CDT for Ness County, Pawnee County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2014, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2014, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
683
WUUS53 KDDC 010354
SVRDDC
KSC135-145-165-010430-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0252.140901T0354Z-140901T0430Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1054 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 1054 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BAZINE...
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BAZINE...RUSH CENTER...TIMKEN...ALEXANDER...ASH VALLEY...NEKOMA AND
SHAFFER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3819 9900 3825 9957 3826 9957 3827 9982
3848 9981 3848 9903 3826 9903 3826 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0354Z 273DEG 38KT 3836 9971
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
GERARDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 16 min |
| Aug 31, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 58 min |
| Aug 31, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 7:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 27 min |
| Aug 31, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 26 min |
| Aug 31, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 64 min |
| Aug 31, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness, Rush | 44 min |
| Aug 31, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.