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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 11:51 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.0 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 04:50 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, 4.9 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.
669
WUUS53 KDDC 090451
SVRDDC
KSC051-090530-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0038.160509T0451Z-160509T0530Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1151 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 1230 AM CDT
* AT 1151 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CATHERINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 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.
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR ELLIS COUNTY.
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 0451Z 222DEG 31KT 3900 9931
HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
RBURG2 follow-up statements
347
WWUS53 KDDC 090514
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1214 AM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
KSC051-090530-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0038.000000T0000Z-160509T0530Z/
ELLIS KS-
1214 AM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR ELLIS COUNTY...
AT 1214 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF
EMMERAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TWO INCH HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HAYS...ELLIS...VICTORIA...WALKER...CATHERINE...YOCEMENTO...EMMERAM AND
TOULON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3886 9904 3880 9959 3913 9959 3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0514Z 247DEG 31KT 3904 9910
HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
RBURG484
WWUS53 KDDC 090530
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1230 AM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
KSC051-090537-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0038.000000T0000Z-160509T0530Z/
ELLIS KS-
1230 AM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ELLIS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
1230 AM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS AS
THEY CROSS NORTHERN ELLIS THROUGH 1 AM.
LAT...LON 3886 9904 3880 9959 3913 9959 3913 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0526Z 222DEG 31KT 3904 9910
$$
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, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 23 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.