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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 5, 20254 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2025, 5:37 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 5, 2025, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2025, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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
Jun 5, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 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 5, 5:14 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 5:14 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
155 PM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-061900-
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-
155 PM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025 /1255 PM MDT Thu Jun 5 2025/

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

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

There will be a chance for severe thunderstorms late this
afternoon and tonight. A few of the stronger storms will be
capable of producing hail larger than 2 inches, strong gusty
winds and locally heavy rainfall will be possible this afternoon
and tonight. An isolated tornado or two also cannot be ruled out.

Some thunderstorms will be capable of producing periods of heavy
rainfall tonight. This may cause localized flash flooding along
the Oklahoma border and east of Liberal. A flood watch is in
effect tonight for this area.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday

There will be slight chance for severe thunderstorms on Friday
across extreme southwest Kansas.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required after 3 pm south of a Syracuse
to Garden City to Dodge City line.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
445 PM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0443 PM     Hail             6 S Big Bow             37.48N 101.56W
06/05/2025  M1.00 Inch       Stanton            KS   Emergency Mngr

            Report via Slack.

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 4:52 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 4:55 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:02 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:14 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:22 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
522 PM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0405 PM     Hail             1 S Johnson City        37.56N 101.75W
06/05/2025  E1.75 Inch       Stanton            KS   Public

            Picture of golf ball sized hail on social
            media.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:46 PM CDT	Flood Watch	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant and 11 more	37 hr
Jun 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton	46 min
Jun 5, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Stanton	68 min
Jun 5, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DDC	Stanton	38 min
Jun 5, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	66 min
Jun 5, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stanton	30 min
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Stanton	3 hr
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	34 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stevens	46 min
Jun 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	25 min
Jun 5, 6:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Stevens	4 hr
Jun 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	51 min
Jun 5, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	56 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.