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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 16, 20154 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2015, 4:03 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. 2 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 16, 2015, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2015, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 16, 4:04 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 N Ulysses, KS	LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN AT THE 4 H BUILDING IN ULYSSES
May 16, 4:05 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 Nnw Ulysses, KS

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 16, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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.

101 
WUUS53 KDDC 162103
SVRDDC
KSC067-081-175-189-162130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0071.150516T2103Z-150516T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
403 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  WESTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 403 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF ULYSSES...MOVING EAST AT 50 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...
  ULYSSES...HUGOTON...SUBLETTE...SATANTA...MOSCOW...RYUS...WOODS...
  CAVE AND HICKOK.

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 900 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3714 10145 3770 10145 3773 10086 3714 10079
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 268DEG 41KT 3752 10131 

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

$$

SUGDEN

1 follow-up statement

959 
WWUS53 KDDC 162123
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
423 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

KSC067-081-175-189-162133-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-150516T2130Z/
GRANT KS-STEVENS KS-SEWARD KS-HASKELL KS-
423 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GRANT...NORTHERN STEVENS...
NORTHWESTERN SEWARD AND WESTERN HASKELL COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 430
PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3714 10145 3770 10145 3773 10086 3714 10079
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 268DEG 41KT 3752 10131 

$$

SUGDEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	28 min
May 16, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	45 min
May 16, 12:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	39 min
May 16, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	41 min
May 16, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stevens	35 min
May 16, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Stevens	37 min
May 16, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	30 min
May 16, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	24 min
May 16, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	21 min
May 16, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	13 min
May 16, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	34 min
May 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	37 min
May 16, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	33 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.