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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 12, 2024Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2024, 3:50 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 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
May 12, 2024, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2024, 4:12 PM CDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 260 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 2:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more3 hr
May 12, 3:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton60 min
May 12, 3:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton57 min
May 12, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton29 min
May 12, 5:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward52 min
May 12, 5:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more89 min
May 12, 5:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant51 min
May 12, 6:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott57 min
May 12, 6:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott53 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.