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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 6, 2016Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2016, 5:42 PM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 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
Jun 6, 2016, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2016, 5:57 PM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

420 
WUUS53 KDDC 062242
SVRDDC
KSC051-195-062330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0145.160606T2242Z-160606T2330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
542 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 542 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  PALCO...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF OGALLAH...MOVING SOUTHEAST 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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN TREGO AND NORTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3897 9938 3911 9969 3913 9968 3913 9930
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 294DEG 15KT 3917 9958 

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

$$

SUGDEN
1 follow-up statement
573 
WWUS53 KDDC 062257
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
557 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2016

KSC051-195-062307-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0145.000000T0000Z-160606T2330Z/
TREGO KS-ELLIS KS-
557 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TREGO AND
NORTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3897 9938 3911 9969 3913 9968 3913 9930
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 294DEG 15KT 3914 9950 

$$

SUGDEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton46 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego48 min
Jun 6, 6:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton, Stevens62 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.