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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2024, 5:52 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 17, 2024, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2024, 6:16 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 17, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 6:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 50 min |
| Jul 16, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 50 min |
| Jul 16, 6:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 38 min |
| Jul 16, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 40 min |
| Jul 16, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 50 min |
| Jul 16, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 34 min |
| Jul 16, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 37 min |
| Jul 16, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 49 min |
| Jul 16, 8:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 8:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 55 min |
| Jul 16, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 9:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Ford | 42 min |
| Jul 16, 9:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 53 min |
| Jul 16, 9:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 51 min |
| Jul 16, 10:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 11:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 11:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 12:16 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 12:45 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 5:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 5:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 62 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.