Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2016, 5:34 PM CDT for Gray County, Haskell County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2016, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2016, 6:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 6 Ssw Tice, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 22, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
572
WUUS53 KDDC 222234
SVRDDC
KSC069-081-119-222330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0047.160522T2234Z-160522T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
534 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 534 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
TICE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...PING PONG 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...
CIMARRON...MONTEZUMA...COPELAND...INGALLS...TICE AND THE HAGGARD ELEV.
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 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3741 10082 3790 10046 3772 10021 3768 10021
3738 10059
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 217DEG 28KT 3743 10071
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
GERARD1 follow-up statement
898
WWUS53 KDDC 222303
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
603 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016
KSC069-081-119-222310-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160522T2330Z/
GRAY KS-MEADE KS-HASKELL KS-
603 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GRAY...NORTHWESTERN MEADE AND
SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3741 10082 3790 10046 3772 10021 3768 10021
3738 10059
TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 217DEG 28KT 3760 10055
$$
GERARDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 47 min |
| May 22, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 38 min |
| May 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 51 min |
| May 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 32 min |
| May 22, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 26 min |
| May 22, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Scott | 46 min |
| May 22, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 16 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.