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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 16, 2023Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2023, 5:51 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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: Jul 16, 2023, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2023, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Destructive
Hail: 2.5 in
Wind: 80.0 mph

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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
Jul 16, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 Jul 16, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 3:30 AM CDT, 14 hours 21 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
330 AM CDT Sun Jul 16 2023

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-170830-
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-
330 AM CDT Sun Jul 16 2023 /230 AM MDT Sun Jul 16 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 possible after 1 pm Today, east of a line
extending from Scott City to Ashland. Large hail 2 inches in
diameter and damaging wind are possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday

Excessive heat will be elevated Tuesday afternoon. Avoid prolonged
excessive heat exposure that results in heat exhaustion.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected Today or Tonight.

Russell

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	52 min
Jul 16, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	34 min
Jul 16, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	62 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.