Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2016, 5:24 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 20, 2016, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | 1 Ene Utica, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
870
WUUS53 KDDC 202224
SVRDDC
KSC101-135-202315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0008.160420T2224Z-160420T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
524 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 524 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED VERY NEAR
PENDENNIS...MOVING EAST 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.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RANSOM...UTICA...ARNOLD AND PENDENNIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3870 10010 3865 9978 3837 10006 3856 10042
3870 10039
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 279DEG 30KT 3864 10031
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FINCH3 follow-up statements
596
WWUS53 KDDC 202245
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
545 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
KSC101-135-202315-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160420T2315Z/
LANE KS-NESS KS-
545 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN LANE AND NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTIES...
AT 545 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARNOLD...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RANSOM...UTICA AND ARNOLD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3870 10010 3865 9978 3837 10006 3856 10042
3868 10024
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 279DEG 30KT 3861 10008
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
FINCH134
WWUS53 KDDC 202302
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
602 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
KSC101-202311-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160420T2315Z/
LANE KS-
602 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3850 9993 3837 10006 3851 10025 3854 10025
3854 10024 3859 10012 3862 9997
TIME...MOT...LOC 2301Z 310DEG 30KT 3848 10018
$$
KSC135-202315-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160420T2315Z/
NESS KS-
602 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY...
AT 601 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEELER...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3850 9993 3837 10006 3851 10025 3854 10025
3854 10024 3859 10012 3862 9997
TIME...MOT...LOC 2301Z 310DEG 30KT 3848 10018
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
FINCH464
WWUS53 KDDC 202308
SVSDDC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
608 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
KSC135-202317-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160420T2315Z/
NESS KS-
608 PM CDT WED APR 20 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN NESS COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 615 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3850 9993 3837 10006 3851 10025 3854 10025
3854 10024 3859 10012 3862 9997
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 279DEG 30KT 3848 10018
$$
FINCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 11:17 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward | 24 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Meade | 47 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.