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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2003, 1:59 AM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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, 1:59 AM CDT (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 190659 SVRDDC KSC033-190730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 159 AM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 159 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COMANCHE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL COMANCHE COUNTY AT 210 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR, AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. 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 3701 9928 3701 9902 3721 9901 3719 9928 $$ BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 54 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.