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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 11, 2017Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2017, 1:24 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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: May 11, 2017, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2017, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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
May 11, 1:25 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 Ene Medicine Lodge, KS
May 11, 1:35 PM CDT	HAIL 2.5	3 E Medicine Lodge, 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

151 
WUUS53 KDDC 111824
SVRDDC
KSC007-111915-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0046.170511T1824Z-170511T1915Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
124 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2017

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Barber County in south central Kansas...

* Until 215 PM CDT

* At 124 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 3 miles northeast
  of Medicine Lodge, moving north at 25 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Medicine Lodge and Lake Arrowhead. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3722 9845 3727 9867 3746 9861 3746 9846
      3739 9846 3738 9838
TIME...MOT...LOC 1824Z 201DEG 20KT 3732 9854 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

303 
WWUS53 KDDC 111854
SVSDDC

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
154 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2017

KSC007-111915-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-170511T1915Z/
Barber KS-
154 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2017

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY...

At 152 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles south of
Nashville, or 10 miles northeast of Medicine Lodge, moving northeast
at 20 mph.

Tennis ball size hail was reported 3 miles east of Medicine Lodge at 
135 PM CDT. 

HAZARD...Tennis 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...
Medicine Lodge.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3722 9845 3726 9861 3745 9854 3745 9847
      3739 9846 3738 9838
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 216DEG 15KT 3737 9842 

HAIL...2.50IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	54 min
May 10, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	25 min
May 10, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	26 min
May 10, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott	63 min
May 10, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	37 min
May 10, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	65 min
May 10, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	62 min
May 10, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	40 min
May 10, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Ness	29 min
May 10, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	44 min
May 10, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	41 min
May 10, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	50 min
May 10, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	45 min
May 10, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	49 min
May 10, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	28 min
May 10, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward, Stevens	57 min
May 10, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	45 min
May 11, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	50 min
May 11, 12:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	41 min
May 11, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Meade	52 min
May 11, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	39 min
May 11, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	53 min
May 11, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	67 min
May 11, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	52 min
May 11, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	24 min
May 11, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	67 min
May 11, 4:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	24 hr

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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.