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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 12, 2026Morton County, Stanton County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2026, 7:58 PM CDT for Morton County, Stanton County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 12, 2026, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2026, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.2

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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 12, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:51 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
751 PM CDT Fri Jun 12 2026

KSZ084-130115-
Morton KS-
751 PM CDT Fri Jun 12 2026

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL MORTON COUNTY THROUGH
815 PM CDT...

At 750 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles northwest of Elkhart, moving northeast at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 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 storm will remain over mainly rural areas of central Morton
County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for
southwestern Kansas.

&&

LAT...LON 3705 10204 3721 10204 3738 10179 3716 10161
      3700 10201 3704 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0050Z 237DEG 22KT 3713 10199

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	24 min
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	46 min
Jun 12, 9:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stevens	31 min
Jun 12, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward, Stevens	32 min
Jun 12, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward, Stevens	31 min
Jun 12, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	35 min
Jun 12, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	29 min
Jun 12, 11:20 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	DDC	Barber	20 hr
Jun 12, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark, Meade	29 min
Jun 12, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade	48 min
Jun 13, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa	34 min
Jun 13, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	29 min
Jun 13, 1:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	55 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	29 min
Jun 13, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	47 min
Jun 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	26 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	31 min
Jun 13, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	36 min
Jun 13, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	27 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	38 min
Jun 13, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	31 min
Jun 13, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	29 min
Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	37 min
Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	35 min
Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Rush	90 min
Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	28 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	18 min
Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	50 min
Jun 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	35 min
Jun 13, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	34 min
Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	29 min
Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Kiowa	39 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.