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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 2, 20244 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2024, 6:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 21 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 2, 2024, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2024, 6:32 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 2, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 671 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 Jun 2, 6:02 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 6:02 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 2:40 AM CDT, 15 hours 31 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
240 AM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-030745-
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-
240 AM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024 /140 AM MDT Sun Jun 2 2024/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas,
south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Sunday.

Scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop 4-7 pm, focused
near US Highway 83, then move eastward through 10 pm. Some storms
are expected to be severe, producing large hail and damaging
winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Additional isolated severe thunderstorms are possible Monday
afternoon and evening, favoring the eastern zones.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is expected to be required after 4 pm Sunday.

Turner

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Haskell	50 min
Jun 1, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	39 min
Jun 1, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	43 min
Jun 1, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	51 min
Jun 1, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	28 min
Jun 1, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward, Stevens	42 min
Jun 1, 8:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	37 min
Jun 1, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	42 min
Jun 1, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Ellis	34 min
Jun 1, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	41 min
Jun 1, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	23 min
Jun 1, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	32 min
Jun 1, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	41 min
Jun 1, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	40 min
Jun 2, 12:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	53 min
Jun 2, 2:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane, Scott	40 min
Jun 2, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	43 min
Jun 2, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	44 min
Jun 2, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	46 min
Jun 2, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	45 min
Jun 2, 4:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	25 min
Jun 2, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	51 min
Jun 2, 4:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark, Ford, Hodgeman	45 min
Jun 2, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	45 min
Jun 2, 5:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Finney, Ford, Hodgeman	3 hr
Jun 2, 9:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	34 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	35 min
Jun 2, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton	26 min
Jun 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	49 min
Jun 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Morton, Stanton	39 min
Jun 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	45 min
Jun 2, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.