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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 17, 2025Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2025, 7:07 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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, 2025, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2025, 7:35 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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 Sep 17, 7:03 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 7:03 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 17, 3:28 AM CDT, 15 hours 39 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
328 AM CDT Wed Sep 17 2025

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-180830-
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-
328 AM CDT Wed Sep 17 2025 /228 AM MDT Wed Sep 17 2025/

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 late this
afternoon and early tonight. The main hazards will be quarter size
hail and 60 mph wind gusts. Locally heavy rainfall will also be
possible, especially overnight.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 17, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
547 PM CDT Wed Sep 17 2025

KSZ066-172330-
Stafford KS-
547 PM CDT Wed Sep 17 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY
THROUGH 630 PM CDT...

At 547 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm very
near Hudson. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Hudson around 550 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3804 9875 3815 9878 3824 9859 3805 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 248DEG 4KT 3810 9868

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

TATRO

Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:20 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	45 min
Sep 17, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	47 min
Sep 17, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	34 min
Sep 17, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	38 min
Sep 17, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	50 min
Sep 17, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	29 min
Sep 18, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	39 min
Sep 18, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Stevens	56 min
Sep 18, 12:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness	39 min
Sep 18, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Seward	46 min

Nearby

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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.