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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 25, 2016, 10:45 AM CST for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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
- Dec 25, 2016, 10:45 AM CST (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2016, 11:17 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ellis County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 11:01 AM CST | TORNADO | 6 Se Nekoma, KS | REPORT DESCRIBED A WEAK TORNADO THAT TOUCHED GROUND IN FARM FIELD SOUTH OF REPORTERS HOUSE. LASTED ONLY A FEW MINUTES. |
| Dec 25, 11:01 AM CST | TORNADO | 6 Sw Rush Center, KS | REPORT DESCRIBED A WEAK TORNADO THAT TOUCHED GROUND IN FARM FIELD SOUTH OF REPORTERS HOUSE. LASTED ONLY A FEW MINUTES. |
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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 477 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 492 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
513 WUUS53 KDDC 251645 SVRDDC KSC051-083-135-145-165-195-251730- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0295.161225T1645Z-161225T1730Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Dodge City KS 1045 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016 The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Rush County in central Kansas... Northwestern Pawnee County in south central Kansas... Eastern Trego County in west central Kansas... Ellis County in central Kansas... Eastern Ness County in west central Kansas... Northeastern Hodgeman County in southwestern Kansas... * Until 1130 AM CST * At 1045 AM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles east of Cedar Bluff Reservoir, or 18 miles west of Hays, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Hays, La Crosse, Ellis, Victoria, Bazine, Catherine, Otis, Bison, Ogallah, Schoenchen, McCracken, Rush Center, Liebenthal, Timken, Walker, Alexander, Ash Valley, Nekoma, Brownell and Antonino. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3830 9903 3819 9966 3913 9984 3913 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 1645Z 236DEG 45KT 3879 9963 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ SUGDEN
2 follow-up statements
552
WWUS53 KDDC 251716
SVSDDC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1116 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016
KSC083-135-195-251725-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0295.000000T0000Z-161225T1730Z/
Trego KS-Ness KS-Hodgeman KS-
1116 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN TREGO...EASTERN NESS
AND NORTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3830 9903 3825 9943 3910 9955 3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 1715Z 236DEG 45KT 3901 9922
$$
KSC051-145-165-251730-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0295.000000T0000Z-161225T1730Z/
Rush KS-Pawnee KS-Ellis KS-
1116 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM CST
FOR RUSH...NORTH CENTRAL PAWNEE AND ELLIS COUNTIES...
At 1115 AM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles north of
Catherine, or 10 miles northeast of Hays, moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Hays, La Crosse, Victoria, Catherine, Otis, Bison, Schoenchen, Rush
Center, Liebenthal, Timken, Walker, Ash Valley, Nekoma, Munjor,
Antonino, Emmeram, Loretta, Pfeifer, Toulon and Yocemento.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3830 9903 3825 9943 3910 9955 3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 1715Z 236DEG 45KT 3901 9922
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$926
WWUS53 KDDC 251717
SVSDDC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1117 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016
KSC051-145-165-251727-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0295.000000T0000Z-161225T1730Z/
Rush KS-Pawnee KS-Ellis KS-
1117 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RUSH...NORTH CENTRAL PAWNEE
AND ELLIS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3830 9903 3825 9943 3910 9955 3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 1716Z 236DEG 45KT 3902 9919
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 4:02 AM CST | High Wind Warning | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 9 more | 14 hr |
| Dec 25, 6:34 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 41 min |
| Dec 25, 7:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Stevens | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 7:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Haskell, Scott, Seward | 62 min |
| Dec 25, 8:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Lane, Meade | 63 min |
| Dec 25, 9:35 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Trego | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 9:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 27 min |
| Dec 25, 10:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 31 min |
| Dec 25, 10:24 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford, Hodgeman and 5 more | 66 min |
| Dec 25, 10:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 39 min |
| Dec 25, 11:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Kiowa, Pawnee and 3 more | 65 min |
| Dec 25, 11:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 18 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.