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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 18, 2018Clark County, Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2018, 8:55 PM CDT for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 2018, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2018, 9:24 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

452 
WUUS53 KDDC 190155
SVRDDC
KSC025-119-190245-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0003.180319T0155Z-180319T0245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
855 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2018

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Eastern Meade County in southwestern Kansas...
  West central Clark County in southwestern Kansas...

* Until 945 PM CDT

* At 855 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles south of
  Meade State Lake, or 16 miles north of Beaver, moving northeast 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...
  Meade, Fowler and Meade State Lake. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3700 10057 3744 10024 3731 9995 3700 10027
TIME...MOT...LOC 0155Z 214DEG 26KT 3703 10042 

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

GERARD

1 follow-up statement

641 
WWUS53 KDDC 190224
SVSDDC

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
924 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2018

KSC025-119-190234-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-180319T0245Z/
Meade KS-Clark KS-
924 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2018

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN MEADE AND WEST CENTRAL
CLARK 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 heavy rain is
still possible with this thunderstorm.

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
Dodge City.

LAT...LON 3700 10057 3744 10024 3731 9995 3700 10027
TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 214DEG 26KT 3721 10027 

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	41 min
Mar 18, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	27 min
Mar 18, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	43 min
Mar 18, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	41 min
Mar 18, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	38 min
Mar 19, 3:41 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	DDC	Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 5 more	11 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.