Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2017, 7:37 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 3 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 15, 2017, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2017, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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 15, 7:45 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | 3 S Protection, KS | REPORT OF GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. |
| Apr 15, 8:11 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 Se Buttermilk, KS | |
| Apr 15, 8:32 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 Nw Buttermilk, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
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WUUS53 KDDC 160037
SVRDDC
KSC033-160130-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0021.170416T0037Z-170416T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
737 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2017
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Comanche County in south central Kansas...
* Until 830 PM CDT
* At 737 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Protection,
moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Two inch 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...
Coldwater, Protection, Wilmore, Buttermilk and Lake Coldwater.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3724 9954 3738 9912 3738 9910 3707 9902
3706 9953
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 258DEG 19KT 3717 9945
HAIL...2.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
RUSSELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 55 min |
| Apr 15, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 10:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Stafford | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Kiowa, Pratt | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 12:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 12:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 12:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Kiowa | 55 min |
| Apr 16, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 62 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.