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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 18, 2015Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2015, 5:11 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 18, 2015, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2015, 5:43 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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
Apr 18, 5:15 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 Wsw Hazelton, KS	HAIL WAS COVERING THE GROUND.

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
Apr 18, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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.

583 
WUUS53 KDDC 182211
SVRDDC
KSC007-182300-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0039.150418T2211Z-150418T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
511 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 511 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED VERY NEAR
  HAZELTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...TWO INCH HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
           WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KIOWA...SHARON AND HAZELTON. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9856 3738 9847 3737 9835 3700 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 219DEG 31KT 3708 9838 

HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

624 
WWUS53 KDDC 182243
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
543 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2015

KSC007-182253-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-150418T2300Z/
BARBER KS-
543 PM CDT SAT APR 18 2015

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

LAT...LON 3700 9856 3738 9847 3737 9835 3700 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 219DEG 31KT 3733 9813 

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	53 min
Apr 17, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	63 min
Apr 17, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	43 min
Apr 18, 4:42 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray and 9 more	4 hr
Apr 18, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	59 min
Apr 18, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	36 min
Apr 18, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	48 min
Apr 18, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	50 min
Apr 18, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	63 min
Apr 18, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	63 min
Apr 18, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	42 min
Apr 18, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	57 min
Apr 18, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	53 min
Apr 18, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	48 min
Apr 18, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	24 min
Apr 18, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	24 min
Apr 18, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	47 min
Apr 18, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	34 min
Apr 18, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	40 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.