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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 4, 2016Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2016, 6:13 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: Aug 4, 2016, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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
Aug 4, 6:21 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	8 W Trego Center, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

826 
WUUS53 KDDC 042313
SVRDDC
KSC195-050000-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0255.160804T2313Z-160805T0000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
613 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 613 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
  VODA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 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...
  WAKEENEY...OGALLAH...COLLYER...CEDAR BLUFF...
  VODA AND TREGO CENTER. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3871 9971 3891 10015 3909 10015 3913 10014
      3913 9961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 295DEG 20KT 3898 10005 

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

JJOHNSON

2 follow-up statements

738 
WWUS53 KDDC 042325
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
625 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

KSC195-050000-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0255.000000T0000Z-160805T0000Z/
TREGO KS-
625 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR TREGO COUNTY...

AT 624 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST
OF TREGO CENTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAKEENEY...OGALLAH...COLLYER...CEDAR BLUFF...VODA AND TREGO CENTER. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3871 9971 3891 10015 3909 10015 3913 10014
      3913 9961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 294DEG 14KT 3895 9998 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

JJOHNSON

467 
WWUS53 KDDC 042355
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
655 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

KSC195-050004-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0255.000000T0000Z-160805T0000Z/
TREGO KS-
655 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TREGO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
700 PM CDT...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3871 9971 3891 10015 3909 10015 3913 10014
      3913 9961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 295DEG 20KT 3895 9998 

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	52 min
Aug 4, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	54 min
Aug 4, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	57 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	29 min
Aug 4, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	41 min
Aug 4, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	53 min
Aug 4, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	60 min
Aug 4, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	54 min
Aug 4, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	65 min
Aug 4, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	26 min
Aug 4, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	59 min
Aug 4, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	38 min
Aug 4, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	64 min
Aug 4, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	45 min
Aug 4, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	59 min
Aug 4, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	29 min
Aug 4, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	40 min
Aug 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	62 min
Aug 4, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	58 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.