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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 11:37 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
659 WUUS53 KDDC 090437 SVRDDC KSC051-090500- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0037.160509T0437Z-160509T0500Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1137 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1137 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF YOCEMENTO...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HAYS...ELLIS...VICTORIA...WALKER...CATHERINE...YOCEMENTO...EMMERAM AND TOULON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3886 9904 3880 9959 3913 9959 3913 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 0437Z 193DEG 37KT 3898 9940 HAIL...1.25IN WIND...<50MPH $$ RBURG
1 follow-up statement
750
WWUS53 KDDC 090446
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1146 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
KSC051-090500-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0037.000000T0000Z-160509T0500Z/
ELLIS KS-
1146 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR ELLIS COUNTY...
AT 1146 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST
OF YOCEMENTO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...TWO INCH HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HAYS...ELLIS...VICTORIA...WALKER...CATHERINE...YOCEMENTO...EMMERAM AND
TOULON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR CENTRAL
KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3886 9904 3880 9959 3913 9959 3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0446Z 222DEG 39KT 3897 9934
HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
RBURGThe 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, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 35 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, 11:51 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.