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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 28, 20154 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2015, 5:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 5 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 28, 2015, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2015, 5:48 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 Finney County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 28, 5:14 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Wnw Friend, KS	VERY BRIEF TORNADO LOOKING WEST FROM HIGHWAY 83 AT THE COUNTY LINE
May 28, 5:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 74	6 Ssw Grigston, KS	MEASURED WIND GUST REPORT RELAYED BY THE LANE COUNTY DISPATCH.
May 28, 5:21 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 59	5 Ssw Grigston, KS
May 28, 5:26 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 63	1 Ssw Manning, KS	ALSO HAD NICKEL SIZED HAIL.
May 28, 5:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 W Healy, KS	TRANSFORMER FIRE ALONG HIGHWAY 4 AT THE SCOTT LANE COUNTY LINE

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 28, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

489 
WUUS53 KDDC 282212
SVRDDC
KSC055-093-101-171-282300-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0121.150528T2212Z-150528T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
512 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  WESTERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 512 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHALLOW
  WATER...MOVING EAST AT 15 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...
  SCOTT CITY...FRIEND...SHALLOW WATER...GRIGSTON...MANNING AND HEALY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3822 10114 3856 10102 3870 10058 3810 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 272DEG 15KT 3840 10090 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

SUGDEN

2 follow-up statements

472 
WWUS53 KDDC 282230
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
530 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

KSC093-282239-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0121.000000T0000Z-150528T2300Z/
KEARNY KS-

530 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF 
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3819 10099 3855 10089 3870 10058 3810 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 272DEG 15KT 3840 10081 

$$

KSC055-101-171-282300-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0121.000000T0000Z-150528T2300Z/
FINNEY KS-LANE KS-SCOTT KS-
530 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY...WESTERN LANE AND SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT
COUNTIES...

AT 529 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF
SHALLOW WATER...MOVING EAST AT 15 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...
SCOTT CITY...FRIEND...SHALLOW WATER...GRIGSTON...MANNING AND HEALY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3819 10099 3855 10089 3870 10058 3810 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 272DEG 15KT 3840 10081 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

SUGDEN

076 
WWUS53 KDDC 282248
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
548 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

KSC055-101-171-282258-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0121.000000T0000Z-150528T2300Z/
FINNEY KS-LANE KS-SCOTT KS-
548 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY...WESTERN
LANE AND SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL....
GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3819 10099 3855 10089 3870 10058 3810 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 272DEG 15KT 3840 10071 

$$

SUGDEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	44 min
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Hodgeman	57 min
May 27, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	50 min
May 27, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	54 min
May 27, 8:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness	6 hr
May 27, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	27 min
May 27, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	17 min
May 27, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	37 min
May 27, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	44 min
May 27, 9:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Lane	12 hr
May 27, 9:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Meade	27 hr
May 27, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	28 min
May 27, 10:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Haskell	27 hr
May 28, 12:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness	9 hr
May 28, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Stanton	46 min
May 28, 2:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens	7 hr
May 28, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	33 min
May 28, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	49 min
May 28, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
May 28, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Scott	29 min
May 28, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	18 min
May 28, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	50 min
May 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	18 min
May 28, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	47 min
May 28, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	43 min
May 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	33 min
May 28, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	40 min
May 28, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness	61 min
May 28, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	42 min
May 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	43 min
May 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Ness	48 min
May 28, 6:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	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.