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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2024, 8:21 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Sep 17, 2024, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 95 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 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 Sep 17, 8:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 8:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 448 AM CDT Tue Sep 17 2024 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-181000- 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- 448 AM CDT Tue Sep 17 2024 /348 AM MDT Tue Sep 17 2024/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas, south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight There is a Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms across mainly far west central and southwest Kansas as storms move east out of Colorado. Limited instability and marginal low level moisture will prevent numerous severe storms, however strongest storms will be capable of 60 mph wind gusts. The large hail risk is very low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday Another strong storm system will provide a better chance for strong to severe storms and potential heavy rainfall late Saturday and Saturday Night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 17, 8:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 17, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton | 62 min |
| Sep 17, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Scott | 36 min |
| Sep 17, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Seward | 33 min |
| Sep 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 34 min |
| Sep 17, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray, Meade | 32 min |
| Sep 17, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman, Meade, Ness, Trego | 41 min |
| Sep 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 12:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 52 min |
| Sep 18, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 39 min |
| Sep 18, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 35 min |
| Sep 18, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 33 min |
| Sep 18, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 37 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.