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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2016Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 10:25 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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: May 8, 2016, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted.

942 
WUUS53 KDDC 090325
SVRDDC
KSC051-090400-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0035.160509T0325Z-160509T0400Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1025 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1025 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF PFEIFER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
           WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HAYS...VICTORIA...WALKER...SCHOENCHEN...MUNJOR...TOULON AND PFEIFER. 

THIS NEW WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ELLIS COUNTY.

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 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3891 9904 3870 9904 3870 9948 3892 9919
TIME...MOT...LOC 0325Z 234DEG 27KT 3874 9923 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

UMSCHEID

1 follow-up statement

937 
WWUS53 KDDC 090356
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1056 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

KSC051-090405-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0035.000000T0000Z-160509T0400Z/
ELLIS KS-
1056 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 1100 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL
HAIL....GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3891 9904 3870 9904 3870 9948 3892 9919
TIME...MOT...LOC 0354Z 234DEG 27KT 3874 9923 

$$

RBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	19 min
May 8, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	51 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	53 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	7 hr
May 8, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	17 min
May 8, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt, Stafford	55 min
May 8, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	39 min
May 8, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	64 min
May 8, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	57 min
May 8, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush	26 min
May 8, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	46 min
May 8, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	52 min
May 8, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	23 min
May 8, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	39 min
May 9, 12:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	24 min
May 9, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	47 min
May 9, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	43 min
May 9, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	57 min
May 9, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	54 min
May 9, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	56 min
May 9, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	45 min
May 9, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	55 min
May 9, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	38 min
May 9, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	49 min
May 9, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	49 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.