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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 8, 20154 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2015, 5:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 16 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 8, 2015, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2015, 5:37 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 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.

490 
WUUS53 KDDC 082221
SVRDDC
KSC067-075-093-187-082315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0252.150808T2221Z-150808T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
521 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT/515 PM MDT/

* AT 520 PM CDT /420 PM MDT/...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5
  MILES NORTH OF JOHNSON CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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...
  JOHNSON CITY AND KENDALL. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3753 10172 3766 10187 3802 10154 3776 10119
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 229DEG 28KT 3765 10173 

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

$$

JJOHNSON

1 follow-up statement

807 
WWUS53 KDDC 082237
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
537 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

KSC067-075-093-187-082246-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-150808T2315Z/
HAMILTON KS-STANTON KS-KEARNY KS-GRANT KS-
537 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON...
NORTHEASTERN STANTON...SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY AND NORTHWESTERN GRANT
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND 
HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3753 10172 3766 10187 3802 10154 3776 10119
TIME...MOT...LOC 2235Z 229DEG 28KT 3773 10161 

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	45 min
Aug 7, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	44 min
Aug 7, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	65 min
Aug 7, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	44 min
Aug 7, 10:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	65 min
Aug 8, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	25 min
Aug 8, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	51 min
Aug 8, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	13 min
Aug 8, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	27 min
Aug 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	40 min
Aug 8, 6:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	3 hr
Aug 8, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	50 min
Aug 8, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	44 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.