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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 4, 2023Lane County, Ness County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2023, 8:16 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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 4, 2023, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 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 4, 9:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 N Alamota, KS	OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED CONE TORNADO IN PROGRESS.

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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

099 
WUUS53 KDDC 050116
SVRDDC
KSC101-135-050200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0021.230505T0116Z-230505T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
816 PM CDT Thu May 4 2023

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Ness County in west central Kansas...
  Northeastern Lane County in west central Kansas...

* Until 900 PM CDT.

* At 816 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southwest
  of Utica, moving east at 15 mph.

  HAZARD...Two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Utica around 830 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Arnold.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3848 10040 3865 10033 3868 9999 3845 10004
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 272DEG 15KT 3855 10024 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...2.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	58 min
May 4, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stanton	43 min
May 4, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	39 min
May 4, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	32 min
May 4, 8:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	40 min
May 4, 8:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	6 hr
May 4, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Lane, Ness	48 min
May 4, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	44 min
May 4, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	44 min
May 4, 9:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	5 hr
May 4, 9:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	46 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.