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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2016, 1:58 AM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 8, 2016, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
260
WUUS53 KDDC 080658
SVRDDC
KSC033-097-080745-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0210.160708T0658Z-160708T0745Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
158 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 245 AM CDT
* AT 158 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF
COLDWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COLDWATER...WILMORE AND LAKE COLDWATER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3721 9933 3731 9954 3755 9937 3743 9908
TIME...MOT...LOC 0658Z 224DEG 14KT 3740 9937
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
TURNER1 follow-up statement
739
WWUS53 KDDC 080735
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
235 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
KSC033-097-080745-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0210.000000T0000Z-160708T0745Z/
COMANCHE KS-KIOWA KS-
235 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL COMANCHE AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES...
AT 234 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF
GREENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILMORE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3727 9926 3734 9939 3750 9928 3743 9908
TIME...MOT...LOC 0734Z 224DEG 14KT 3750 9924
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
TURNERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 1:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 2:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 2:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 2:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 3:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 5:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 63 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.