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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2016Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 6:42 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 6 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
May 8, 2016, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
1.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 8, 6:50 PM CDTHAIL 1.752 N Yocemento, KS
May 8, 6:50 PM CDTHAIL 1.753 N Yocemento, KS
May 8, 7:08 PM CDTTORNADO7 Nw Catherine, KS
May 8, 7:13 PM CDTTORNADO9 Nw Emmeram, KS
May 8, 7:15 PM CDTTORNADO9 Nnw Emmeram, KSSIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO FARM HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS.
May 8, 7:18 PM CDTTORNADO7 Nnw Catherine, KS

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

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 8, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

779 
WUUS53 KDDC 082342
SVRDDC
KSC051-090030-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0026.160508T2342Z-160509T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF YOCEMENTO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE 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...
  HAYS...CATHERINE AND EMMERAM. 

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 CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3902 9904 3886 9936 3900 9951 3913 9933
      3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 231DEG 23KT 3898 9936 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH

$$

TURNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott32 min
May 7, 7:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane50 min
May 7, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott14 min
May 7, 8:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane52 min
May 7, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott35 min
May 7, 9:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray, Haskell51 min
May 7, 9:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHodgeman42 min
May 7, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Hodgeman40 min
May 7, 9:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego51 min
May 7, 10:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHodgeman, Ness, Rush52 min
May 7, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego26 min
May 7, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego37 min
May 7, 11:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis35 min
May 8, 10:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt50 min
May 8, 11:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt28 min
May 8, 11:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt50 min
May 8, 4:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton43 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott43 min
May 8, 4:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny48 min
May 8, 4:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny40 min
May 8, 4:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCLane46 min
May 8, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness41 min
May 8, 5:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa64 min
May 8, 5:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess52 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt60 min
May 8, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Trego29 min
May 8, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa40 min
May 8, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess23 min
May 8, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego47 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego26 min
May 8, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford32 min
May 8, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Rush36 min
May 8, 6:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego24 min
May 8, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Trego20 min
May 8, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush23 min
May 8, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford27 min
May 8, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis37 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.