Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2018, 7:07 PM CDT for Grant County, Haskell County, Stevens 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
- Jul 20, 2018, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2018, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:14 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 8 Nne Ulysses, KS | |
| Jul 20, 7:17 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 8 N Hickok, KS | HAIL WAS AT LEAST THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. |
| Jul 20, 7:30 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | 9 N Hickok, KS | PICTURE OF HAIL WAS FORWARDED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA FROM KSN NEWS. |
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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 4052 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted.
421
WUUS53 KDDC 210007
SVRDDC
KSC067-081-189-210100-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0310.180721T0007Z-180721T0100Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
707 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2018
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Grant County in southwestern Kansas...
North central Stevens County in southwestern Kansas...
Northwestern Haskell County in southwestern Kansas...
* Until 800 PM CDT.
* At 707 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located very near Ulysses,
moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Ulysses, Moscow, Ryus and Hickok.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3756 10151 3773 10132 3771 10074 3727 10123
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 297DEG 14KT 3757 10136
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
RBURG1 follow-up statement
940
WWUS53 KDDC 210033
SVSDDC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
733 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2018
KSC189-210043-
/O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-180721T0100Z/
Stevens KS-
733 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2018
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3765 10139 3773 10132 3771 10074 3743 10105
TIME...MOT...LOC 0033Z 269DEG 24KT 3767 10118
$$
KSC067-081-210100-
/O.CON.KDDC.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-180721T0100Z/
Grant KS-Haskell KS-
733 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2018
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN GRANT AND NORTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTIES...
At 733 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles north of
Hickok, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Hickok and Ryus.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3765 10139 3773 10132 3771 10074 3743 10105
TIME...MOT...LOC 0033Z 269DEG 24KT 3767 10118
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
RBURGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Haskell, Meade | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 31 min |
| Jul 20, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 11:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 45 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.