NWS Dodge City KSSV.W 0276September 12, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Clark and Comanche, KS
The National Weather Service office in Dodge City issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Clark and Comanche in Kansas, which was in force until 7:00 p.m. local time on September 12. It was the 276th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Dodge City issued in 2026. Kansas had 142 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 72 in an average September of 2008-2025 (Kansas's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 50 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Dodge City KS
- Area
- Clark and Comanche
- State
- Kansas
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 6:10 p.m. CDT, September 12, 2026
- Expires
- 7:00 p.m. CDT, September 12, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KDDC SV.W 0276
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas since 2008Every warning type in Kansas
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The notice as issued
SVRDDC The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Comanche County in south central Kansas... East central Clark County in southwestern Kansas... * Until 700 PM CDT. * At 609 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Sitka to near Buttermilk, moving northeast at 40 mph. HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. SOURCE...Automated weather station. At 6PM CDT, a Kansas Mesonet station reported a 64 mph wind gust 8 miles south of Ashland. IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. * Severe thunderstorms will be near... Protection and Buttermilk around 615 PM CDT. Coldwater and Lake Coldwater around 625 PM CDT. Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include Wilmore.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas since 20081,225 a year
- Every warning type in Kansas
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels