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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2003, 7:29 PM CDT for Seward 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2003, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 28, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 2306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 290029 SVRDDC KSC175-290130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 729 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF KISMET...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KISMET AT 745 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS, WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY. LAT...LON 3720 10106 3701 10102 3702 10065 3730 10067 $$ BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Seward | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 1:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Seward | 4 hr |
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.