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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 23, 2025Lane County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2025, 6:56 PM CDT for Lane County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2025, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2025, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lane County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 23, 7:08 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	Healy, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted.

085 
WUUS53 KDDC 232356
SVRDDC
KSC101-171-240045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0021.250423T2356Z-250424T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
656 PM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Scott County in west central Kansas...
  Northern Lane County in west central Kansas...

* Until 745 PM CDT.

* At 656 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Healy, moving
  northeast at 25 mph.

  HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Healy around 700 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Shields.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3870 10036 3850 10030 3846 10083 3870 10080
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 242DEG 22KT 3860 10066 

THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	27 min
Apr 22, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	52 min
Apr 22, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	47 min
Apr 22, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	36 min
Apr 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Barber, Comanche	62 min
Apr 22, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Barber	3 hr
Apr 22, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	36 min
Apr 22, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	50 min
Apr 23, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	26 min
Apr 23, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	25 min
Apr 23, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	32 min
Apr 23, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	25 min
Apr 23, 11:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	27 min
Apr 23, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	38 min
Apr 23, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	37 min
Apr 23, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Trego	42 min
Apr 23, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	38 min
Apr 23, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	39 min
Apr 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	44 min
Apr 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Lane, Scott	46 min
Apr 23, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Morton, Stevens	24 min
Apr 23, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	47 min
Apr 23, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	49 min
Apr 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	52 min
Apr 23, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	35 min
Apr 23, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny	31 min
Apr 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	23 min
Apr 23, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	44 min
Apr 23, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Finney, Gray, Kearny, Scott	47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.