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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2021, 8:26 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- May 2, 2021, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2021, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 15 Ese Friend, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:41 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 76 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted.
046
WUUS53 KDDC 030126
SVRDDC
KSC055-030200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0018.210503T0126Z-210503T0200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
826 PM CDT Sun May 2 2021
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Finney County in southwestern Kansas...
* Until 900 PM CDT.
* At 826 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 7 miles east of Friend to near Garden City, moving
east at 25 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.
* These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of
north central Finney County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3826 10047 3801 10047 3801 10083 3826 10082
TIME...MOT...LOC 0126Z 253DEG 21KT 3830 10078 3802 10081
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
RBURGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 42 min |
| May 2, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Stanton, Stevens | 43 min |
| May 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 35 min |
| May 2, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 47 min |
| May 2, 7:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 66 min |
| May 2, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 52 min |
| May 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 44 min |
| May 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane | 51 min |
| May 2, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 34 min |
| May 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade | 60 min |
| May 2, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 41 min |
| May 2, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 39 min |
| May 2, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade | 39 min |
| May 2, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 48 min |
| May 2, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa | 64 min |
| May 2, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 41 min |
| May 2, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 49 min |
| May 2, 10:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 63 min |
| May 2, 11:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 49 min |
| May 2, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt, Stafford | 45 min |
| May 3, 1:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 38 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.