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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 13, 2026Lane County, Ness County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2026, 8:56 PM CDT for Lane County, Ness County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 13, 2026, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2026, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 Aug 13, 5:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 5:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 8:13 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 8:16 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 8:29 PM CDT, 27 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
Aug 13, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	41 min
Aug 13, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	26 min
Aug 13, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ness, Rush	32 min
Aug 13, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	27 min
Aug 13, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Lane	31 min
Aug 13, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	25 min
Aug 13, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane, Ness, Scott	37 min
Aug 13, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	24 min
Aug 13, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	30 min
Aug 13, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	28 min
Aug 13, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	52 min
Aug 14, 3:41 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee	17 hr
Aug 14, 3:41 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt, Stafford	17 hr
Aug 14, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	46 min
Aug 14, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	34 min
Aug 14, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	38 min
Aug 14, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	35 min
Aug 14, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	30 min
Aug 14, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	39 min
Aug 14, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	31 min
Aug 14, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	45 min
Aug 14, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	43 min
Aug 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	18 min
Aug 14, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	41 min
Aug 14, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	38 min
Aug 14, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	40 min
Aug 14, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	37 min
Aug 14, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	24 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.