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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 12, 2021Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2021, 4:51 AM CST for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 12, 2021, 4:51 AM CST (10:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2021, 5:15 AM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 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 12, 4:55 AM CST	TSTM WND GST 65	2 Wsw Preston, KS	MESONET STATION UP393 2.2 W PRESTON (UPR).

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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 2118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 88 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 332 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

909 
WUUS53 KDDC 121051
SVRDDC
KSC151-121115-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0001.210312T1051Z-210312T1115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
451 AM CST Fri Mar 12 2021

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

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

* Until 515 AM CST.

* At 450 AM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Preston,
  moving east at 45 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...
  Preston and Cairo. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3762 9868 3781 9870 3783 9856 3782 9847
      3763 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 1050Z 264DEG 39KT 3773 9860 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

GERARD

1 follow-up statement

171 
WWUS53 KDDC 121108
SVSDDC

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
508 AM CST Fri Mar 12 2021

KSC151-121118-
/O.EXP.KDDC.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-210312T1115Z/
Pratt KS-
508 AM CST Fri Mar 12 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 515 AM CST...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

LAT...LON 3762 9868 3781 9870 3783 9856 3782 9847
      3763 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 1108Z 264DEG 39KT 3775 9839 

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 6:25 PM CST	Flood Watch	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 8 more	63 hr
Mar 12, 1:54 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	36 min
Mar 12, 2:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	46 min
Mar 12, 3:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	42 min
Mar 12, 4:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	43 min
Mar 12, 8:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Meade and 1 more	44 min
Mar 12, 8:37 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Pratt, Stafford	38 min
Mar 12, 9:05 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	40 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.