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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2017, 8:21 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 54 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
- Mar 23, 2017, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2017, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 8:56 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 64 | 5 Nw Pierceville, KS | REPORTED AT THE GARDEN CITY AIRPORT. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted.
957
WUUS53 KDDC 240121
SVRDDC
KSC055-067-081-093-175-189-240215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0006.170324T0121Z-170324T0215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
821 PM CDT THU MAR 23 2017
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Seward County in southwestern Kansas...
Southern Kearny County in southwestern Kansas...
Southwestern Finney County in southwestern Kansas...
Grant County in southwestern Kansas...
Eastern Stevens County in southwestern Kansas...
Haskell County in southwestern Kansas...
* Until 915 PM CDT
* At 821 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 3 miles northeast of Ulysses to near Hooker, moving
north at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Up to 70 mph wind gusts and up to half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Garden City, Liberal, Ulysses, Hugoton, Lakin, Sublette, Satanta,
Holcomb, Deerfield, Kismet, Moscow, Hayne, Plymell, Hickok, Ryus,
Cave, Tice, Woods, Garden City Regional Airport and Arkalon Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3700 10132 3789 10151 3814 10068 3700 10067
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 200DEG 32KT 3761 10130 3686 10124
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
HOVORKAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 67 min |
| Mar 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 8:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 66 min |
| Mar 23, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Meade, Scott and 1 more | 64 min |
| Mar 23, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa | 23 min |
| Mar 24, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 60 min |
| Mar 24, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 37 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.