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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2023, 3:52 PM CDT for Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2023, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2023, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 646 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 23.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 3:28 PM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:28 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 2:41 AM CDT, 13 hours 11 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 241 AM CDT Tue Jun 27 2023 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-280745- Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman- Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa- Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber- 241 AM CDT Tue Jun 27 2023 /141 AM MDT Tue Jun 27 2023/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas, south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Severe thunderstorms are likely Tuesday afternoon and evening as convection forming in eastern CO moves into western KS. Strong instability and sufficient bulk shear will support an intense line of thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts, some potentially significant, and large hail. Highest probability of severe exists across areas east of US-83 and south of KS-156. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. Springer
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 6:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.