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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 12, 2017Lane County, Ness County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2017, 5:06 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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 12, 2017, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2017, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 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), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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 12, 5:10 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 E Healy, KS
Apr 12, 6:08 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	2 Ene Dighton, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 2330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

720 
WUUS53 KDDC 122206
SVRDDC
KSC101-135-122300-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0013.170412T2206Z-170412T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
506 PM CDT WED APR 12 2017

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Ness County in west central Kansas...
  Lane County in west central Kansas...

* Until 600 PM CDT

* At 506 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles southeast
  of Healy, or 7 miles northwest of Dighton, moving east at 25 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...
  Dighton, Healy, Utica, Alamota, Shields, Pendennis and Amy. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3870 10016 3846 10013 3839 10067 3864 10068
      3870 10056
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 248DEG 22KT 3855 10057 

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

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	57 min
Apr 12, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	56 min
Apr 12, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	63 min
Apr 12, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Scott	44 min
Apr 12, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	46 min
Apr 12, 6:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	3 hr
Apr 12, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	3 hr
Apr 12, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Scott	59 min
Apr 12, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	50 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.