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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 28, 2016Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2016, 2:40 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 3 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: Jun 28, 2016, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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
Jun 28, 2:58 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 Ssw Cairo, KS	MOSTLY NICKELS, A FEW QUARTERS.
Jun 28, 3:26 PM CDT	HAIL 1	1 Se Cairo, KS
Jun 28, 3:26 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Cairo, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

697 
WUUS53 KDDC 281940
SVRDDC
KSC007-151-282045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0182.160628T1940Z-160628T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
240 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 240 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED VERY NEAR
  CAIRO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

  HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE 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...
  ISABEL AND CAIRO. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3742 9861 3764 9860 3773 9846 3740 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 1940Z 334DEG 6KT 3765 9852 

HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

FINCH

1 follow-up statement

755 
WWUS53 KDDC 281954
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
254 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

KSC007-151-282045-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0182.000000T0000Z-160628T2045Z/
PRATT KS-BARBER KS-
254 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN PRATT AND NORTH CENTRAL BARBER COUNTIES...

AT 253 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CAIRO...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE 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...
ISABEL AND CAIRO. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3742 9861 3764 9860 3770 9846 3740 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 1953Z 348DEG 10KT 3761 9851 

HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Gray	40 min
Jun 28, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	39 min
Jun 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	55 min
Jun 28, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	51 min
Jun 28, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	39 min
Jun 28, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	51 min
Jun 28, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	41 min
Jun 28, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	39 min
Jun 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	45 min
Jun 28, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	55 min
Jun 28, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	41 min
Jun 28, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	31 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.