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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 9, 2016Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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 9, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
2.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

159 
WUUS53 KDDC 091949
SVRDDC
KSC007-092045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0041.160509T1949Z-160509T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
249 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 249 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF
  HAZELTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...UP TO TWO INCH 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...
  KIOWA AND HAZELTON. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9862 3720 9856 3714 9835 3700 9835
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 217DEG 36KT 3711 9850 

HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

HOVORKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego19 min
May 8, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis51 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber53 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEllis, Rush7 hr
May 8, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego17 min
May 8, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt, Stafford55 min
May 8, 8:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess39 min
May 8, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Trego64 min
May 8, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego57 min
May 8, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush26 min
May 8, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis35 min
May 8, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego46 min
May 8, 11:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis52 min
May 8, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis23 min
May 8, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis39 min
May 9, 12:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis24 min
May 9, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego47 min
May 9, 2:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton43 min
May 9, 2:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber57 min
May 9, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt54 min
May 9, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber45 min
May 9, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber55 min
May 9, 4:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray38 min
May 9, 5:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord49 min
May 9, 6:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCRush49 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.