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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2026, 11:59 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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 27, 2026, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 27, 11:25 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 11:25 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 50 min |
| Aug 28, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 43 min |
| Aug 28, 1:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness, Rush | 54 min |
| Aug 28, 1:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Aug 28, 2:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Scott | 63 min |
| Aug 28, 2:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 27 min |
| Aug 28, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 22 min |
| Aug 28, 3:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 42 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.