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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2016Edwards County, Ford County, Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 5:35 PM CDT for Edwards County, Ford County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 39 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 33 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.

280 
WUUS53 KDDC 082235
SVRDDC
KSC047-057-097-082330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0021.160508T2235Z-160508T2330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
535 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 533 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF WINDHORST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 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...
  KINSLEY...LEWIS...MULLINVILLE...OFFERLE...BELPRE...CENTERVIEW AND
  WINDHORST.

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 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3767 9975 3792 9958 3792 9957 3801 9952
      3798 9902 3754 9953
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 210DEG 35KT 3767 9958 

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

$$

UMSCHEID

2 follow-up statements

967 
WWUS53 KDDC 082251
SVSDDC

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

KSC097-082301-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160508T2330Z/
KIOWA KS-

551 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY 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 SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3773 9943 3776 9958 3791 9958 3792 9957
      3801 9952 3798 9902
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 210DEG 35KT 3782 9947 

$$

KSC047-057-082330-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160508T2330Z/
FORD KS-EDWARDS KS-
551 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN FORD AND SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTIES...

AT 551 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF OFFERLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KINSLEY...LEWIS...OFFERLE AND BELPRE. 

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 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3773 9943 3776 9958 3791 9958 3792 9957
      3801 9952 3798 9902
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 210DEG 35KT 3782 9947 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

UMSCHEID

229 
WWUS53 KDDC 082315 RRA
SVSDDC

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

KSC047-057-082325-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160508T2330Z/
FORD KS-EDWARDS KS-
615 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FORD AND SOUTHERN
EDWARDS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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

LAT...LON 3773 9943 3776 9958 3791 9958 3792 9957
      3801 9952 3798 9902
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 210DEG 35KT 3803 9932 

$$

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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, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Trego	29 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.