Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2017, 8:10 PM CDT for Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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 19, 2017, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2017, 8:28 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Edwards County, KS, Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 19, 8:26 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ene Zook, KS | GROUND WAS COVERED WITH HAIL. |
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 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
230
WUUS53 KDDC 200110
SVRDDC
KSC047-145-200200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0033.170420T0110Z-170420T0200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
810 PM CDT WED APR 19 2017
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Pawnee County in south central Kansas...
Central Edwards County in south central Kansas...
* Until 900 PM CDT
* At 810 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles northeast
of Offerle, or 4 miles west of Kinsley, moving east at 30 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...
Kinsley, Lewis, Garfield, Belpre and Zook.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3784 9954 3801 9954 3814 9902 3782 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0110Z 267DEG 27KT 3792 9950
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
397
WWUS53 KDDC 200128
SVSDDC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
828 PM CDT WED APR 19 2017
KSC047-145-200138-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0033.000000T0000Z-170420T0200Z/
Pawnee KS-Edwards KS-
828 PM CDT WED APR 19 2017
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE AND
CENTRAL EDWARDS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled. However small hail, gusty
winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for
south central Kansas.
LAT...LON 3784 9954 3801 9954 3814 9902 3782 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 267DEG 27KT 3793 9933
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barton | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 7:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 8:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Stafford | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 9:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 10:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 53 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.