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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2016Lane County, Ness County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 5:32 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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: May 8, 2016, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2016, 6:01 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 2934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

788 
WUUS53 KDDC 082232
SVRDDC
KSC101-135-195-082315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0020.160508T2232Z-160508T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
532 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 532 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR UTICA...
  MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TWO INCH HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
           CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO 
           MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  UTICA...ARNOLD AND PENDENNIS. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3874 9989 3848 10016 3856 10040 3870 10033
      3870 10015 3881 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 200DEG 21KT 3864 10022 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

TURNER

1 follow-up statement

169 
WWUS53 KDDC 082301
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
601 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

KSC101-135-195-082311-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0020.000000T0000Z-160508T2315Z/
TREGO KS-LANE KS-NESS KS-
601 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TREGO...
NORTHEASTERN LANE AND NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3874 9989 3848 10016 3856 10040 3870 10033
      3870 10015 3881 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 200DEG 21KT 3880 10015 

$$

TURNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	32 min
May 7, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	50 min
May 7, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	14 min
May 7, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	52 min
May 7, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	35 min
May 7, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Haskell	51 min
May 7, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	42 min
May 7, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Hodgeman	40 min
May 7, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	51 min
May 7, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Rush	52 min
May 7, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	26 min
May 7, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	37 min
May 7, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	35 min
May 8, 10:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	50 min
May 8, 11:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	28 min
May 8, 11:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	50 min
May 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	43 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	43 min
May 8, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	48 min
May 8, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	40 min
May 8, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	46 min
May 8, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	41 min
May 8, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	64 min
May 8, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	52 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	60 min
May 8, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	40 min
May 8, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ness	23 min
May 8, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	47 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	26 min
May 8, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	32 min
May 8, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush	36 min
May 8, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	24 min
May 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	20 min
May 8, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	23 min
May 8, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	48 min
May 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	27 min
May 8, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.