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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 20164 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 7:58 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 24, 2016, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2016, 8:47 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ellis County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 1159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted.

257 
WUUS53 KDDC 250058
SVRDDC
KSC051-135-165-195-250200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0077.160525T0058Z-160525T0200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
758 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  EASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED VERY NEAR
  MCCRACKEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 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. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BAZINE...SCHOENCHEN...MCCRACKEN...LIEBENTHAL...ALEXANDER...BROWNELL...
  ANTONINO AND HARGRAVE.

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 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3878 9918 3834 9964 3837 9992 3888 9965
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 326DEG 12KT 3858 9956 

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

$$

FINCH

1 follow-up statement

082 
WWUS53 KDDC 250147
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
847 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

KSC051-135-165-195-250157-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0077.000000T0000Z-160525T0200Z/
RUSH KS-TREGO KS-ELLIS KS-NESS KS-
847 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN RUSH...
SOUTHEASTERN TREGO...SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS AND EASTERN NESS 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 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3878 9918 3834 9964 3837 9992 3888 9965
TIME...MOT...LOC 0146Z 326DEG 12KT 3844 9944 

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	45 min
May 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	45 min
May 24, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	41 min
May 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	23 min
May 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	53 min
May 24, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	47 min
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	46 min
May 24, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	26 min
May 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Trego	44 min
May 24, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	56 min
May 24, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	11 min
May 24, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	2 min
May 24, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	9 min
May 24, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	12 min
May 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 min
May 24, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	29 min
May 24, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	9 min
May 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	49 min
May 24, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Edwards	33 min
May 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Kiowa, Pratt	31 min
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	22 min
May 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	32 min
May 24, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	46 min
May 24, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Ness	8 min
May 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ellis, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	34 min
May 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Pawnee, Rush	32 min
May 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	24 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	57 min
May 24, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	35 min
May 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	29 min
May 24, 9:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	42 min
May 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	61 min
May 24, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	3 hr
May 24, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	3 hr
May 24, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	40 min
May 24, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	12 min
May 24, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	43 min
May 24, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	37 min
May 24, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	52 min
May 24, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	24 min
May 24, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	30 min
May 25, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	43 min
May 25, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	51 min
May 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	15 min
May 25, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	41 min
May 25, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	36 min
May 25, 12:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	12 hr

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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.