Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2016, 7:14 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 8, 2016, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted.
646
WUUS53 KDDC 090014
SVRDDC
KSC007-033-090100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0270.160909T0014Z-160909T0100Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
714 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 713 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF AETNA...OR 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
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.
A WIND GUST OF 69 MPH WAS MEAURED FROM THIS STORM IN WOODS COUNTY
OKLAHOMA AT 7:05 PM CDT.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARDTNER AND AETNA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3704 9905 3726 9885 3709 9846 3700 9870
3700 9899
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 220DEG 24KT 3705 9891
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
TURNER2 follow-up statements
956
WWUS53 KDDC 090027
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
727 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2016
KSC007-033-090100-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0270.000000T0000Z-160909T0100Z/
COMANCHE KS-BARBER KS-
727 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR EASTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTIES...
AT 727 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF
AETNA...OR 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND UP TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARDTNER AND AETNA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3704 9905 3726 9885 3709 9846 3700 9870
3700 9899
TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 220DEG 24KT 3712 9883
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
TURNER738
WWUS53 KDDC 090052
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
752 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2016
KSC007-033-090100-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0270.000000T0000Z-160909T0100Z/
COMANCHE KS-BARBER KS-
752 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHERN
BARBER COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING IS WEAKENING AND
MOVING OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL
BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3704 9905 3726 9885 3709 9846 3700 9870
3700 9899
TIME...MOT...LOC 0048Z 220DEG 24KT 3712 9883
$$
TURNERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 51 min |
| Sep 8, 10:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 38 min |
| Sep 8, 11:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 40 min |
| Sep 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 35 min |
| Sep 9, 2:20 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 8 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DDC | Barber, Pratt, Stafford | 19 hr |
| Sep 9, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 67 min |
| Sep 9, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 58 min |
| Sep 9, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Sep 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 67 min |
| Sep 9, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 53 min |
| Sep 9, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 38 min |
| Sep 9, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 34 min |
| Sep 9, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Clark | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 45 min |
| Sep 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 19 min |
| Sep 9, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 46 min |
| Sep 9, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 23 min |
| Sep 9, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 116 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.