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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 27, 20154 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2015, 5:23 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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, 2015, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Finney County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 27, 5:52 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	12 S Alamota, KS
May 27, 5:52 PM CDT	TORNADO	13 N Kalvesta, KS
May 27, 6:18 PM CDT	TORNADO	8 N Kalvesta, KS	A VERY LARGE TORNADO.

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, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

098 
WUUS53 KDDC 272223
SVRDDC
KSC055-083-101-135-272315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0101.150527T2223Z-150527T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
523 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF KALVESTA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN...SOUTHWESTERN NESS...NORTHEASTERN FINNEY AND
  SOUTHEASTERN LANE COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3823 10056 3834 10048 3832 10017 3809 10017
TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 279DEG 13KT 3824 10041 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

SUGDEN

2 follow-up statements

664 
WWUS53 KDDC 272243
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
543 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015

KSC055-083-101-135-272315-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-150527T2315Z/
HODGEMAN KS-NESS KS-FINNEY KS-LANE KS-
543 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN...SOUTHWESTERN NESS...NORTHEASTERN FINNEY
AND SOUTHEASTERN LANE COUNTIES...

AT 543 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF
KALVESTA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN...SOUTHWESTERN NESS...NORTHEASTERN FINNEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN LANE COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3823 10048 3832 10038 3832 10017 3809 10017
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 269DEG 7KT 3824 10035 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

SUGDEN

511 
WWUS53 KDDC 272312
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015

KSC055-083-101-135-272322-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-150527T2315Z/
HODGEMAN KS-NESS KS-FINNEY KS-LANE KS-
612 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN HODGEMAN...
SOUTHWESTERN NESS...NORTHEASTERN FINNEY AND SOUTHEASTERN LANE
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 615 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3823 10048 3832 10038 3832 10017 3809 10017
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 279DEG 13KT 3824 10035 

$$

SUGDEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	28 min
May 27, 2:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa and 3 more	41 hr
May 27, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	45 min
May 27, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	48 min
May 27, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane	36 min
May 27, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	25 min
May 27, 3:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	6 hr
May 27, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	49 min
May 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	50 min
May 27, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	31 min
May 27, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane	27 min
May 27, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	48 min
May 27, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	28 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	11 min
May 27, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	44 min
May 27, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	56 min
May 27, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	42 min
May 27, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	42 min
May 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell	30 min
May 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	49 min
May 27, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	50 min
May 27, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell	15 min
May 27, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman	34 min
May 27, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	54 min
May 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	33 min
May 27, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	14 min
May 27, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade	53 min
May 27, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	48 min
May 27, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman	29 min
May 27, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	52 min
May 27, 6:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	3 hr
May 27, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell	13 min
May 27, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	28 min
May 27, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell	30 min
May 27, 6:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Haskell	3 hr

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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.