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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2025, 9:59 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 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 22, 2025, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2025, 10:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 22, 6:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 6:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 349 AM CDT Mon Sep 22 2025 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-230900- 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- 349 AM CDT Mon Sep 22 2025 /249 AM MDT Mon Sep 22 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 Severe storms are expected Monday evening and last into the night. All hazards are expected to be possible including flooding potential. It is not forecast to be a higher end event, but there is a widespread tangible severe threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed if Monday's event evolves and becomes a higher end event with a serious and widespread severe threat.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 8:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 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 22, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 37 min |
| Sep 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell | 29 min |
| Sep 22, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 37 min |
| Sep 22, 10:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 33 min |
| Sep 22, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade, Seward | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 26 min |
| Sep 22, 11:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 25 min |
| Sep 22, 11:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 11:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 43 min |
| Sep 22, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 11:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 53 min |
| Sep 23, 12:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Ness | 44 min |
| Sep 23, 12:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 36 min |
| Sep 23, 12:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 43 min |
| Sep 23, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 51 min |
| Sep 23, 1:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott | 8 hr |
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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.