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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 16, 2016Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2016, 4:03 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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 16, 2016, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

324 
WUUS53 KDDC 162103
SVRDDC
KSC055-162130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0045.160516T2103Z-160516T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
403 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 403 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF
  GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3797 10095 3808 10105 3826 10087 3812 10064
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 229DEG 29KT 3811 10088 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

TURNER

1 follow-up statement

359 
WWUS53 KDDC 162117
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
417 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

KSC055-162130-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0045.000000T0000Z-160516T2130Z/
FINNEY KS-
417 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY...

AT 416 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF FRIEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3802 10087 3813 10099 3826 10087 3812 10064
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 223DEG 5KT 3814 10084 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

TURNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	51 min
May 16, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	49 min
May 16, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	48 min
May 16, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	37 min
May 16, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	46 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.