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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 19, 2003Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2003, 1:51 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2003, 1:51 AM CDT (06:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 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
Apr 19, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

087 
WUUS53 KDDC 190651
SVRDDC
KSC007-190745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
150 AM CDT SAT APR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 149 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES EAST OF AETNA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HARDTNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HAZELTON AT 200 AM CDT
  LAKE CITY AT 205 AM CDT
  MEDICINE LODGE AT 210 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3703 9899 3701 9837 3737 9837 3736 9848
          3746 9848 3745 9897

$$

BURKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	31 min
Apr 19, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	59 min
Apr 19, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	62 min
Apr 19, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	61 min
Apr 19, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	54 min
Apr 19, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	37 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.