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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 26, 20164 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2016, 2:29 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 26, 2016, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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 26, 1:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -425 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted.

135 
WUUS53 KDDC 261929
SVRDDC
KSC025-033-057-097-262015-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0098.160526T1929Z-160526T2015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
229 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  EASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 229 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF
  PROTECTION...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ASHLAND...COLDWATER...PROTECTION...SITKA AND LAKE COLDWATER. 

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 3711 9937 3710 9979 3754 9975 3752 9922
TIME...MOT...LOC 1929Z 188DEG 33KT 3721 9953 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...<50MPH

$$

RBURG

1 follow-up statement

469 
WWUS53 KDDC 262012
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
312 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

KSC025-033-057-097-262022-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0098.000000T0000Z-160526T2015Z/
COMANCHE KS-FORD KS-CLARK KS-KIOWA KS-
312 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE...
SOUTHEASTERN FORD...EASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTIES
WILL EXPIRE AT 315 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN
FORD COUNTY. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3711 9937 3710 9979 3754 9975 3752 9922
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 188DEG 33KT 3721 9953 

$$

RBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	12 min
May 26, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	55 min
May 26, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	46 min
May 26, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	43 min
May 26, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	24 min
May 26, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	49 min
May 26, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	47 min
May 26, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	48 min
May 26, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	34 min
May 26, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	31 min
May 26, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	30 min
May 26, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Stafford	34 min
May 26, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	25 min
May 26, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	39 min
May 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa	47 min
May 26, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	10 min
May 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	36 min
May 26, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Stafford	34 min
May 26, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	55 min
May 26, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	45 min
May 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	17 min
May 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	22 min
May 26, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	41 min
May 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	50 min
May 26, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	56 min
May 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	40 min
May 26, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	47 min
May 26, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	39 min
May 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	64 min
May 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	49 min
May 26, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	24 min
May 26, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	67 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	46 min
May 26, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	48 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	16 min
May 26, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark	37 min
May 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	50 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	12 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	43 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.