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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 31, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
863 WUUS53 KDDC 312326 SVRDDC KSC165-010000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 625 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARGRAVE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RUSH CENTER AT 630 PM CDT TIMKEN AT 635 PM CDT OTIS AT 640 PM CDT SHAFFER AT 645 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR NORTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY. 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 3868 9905 3867 9951 3835 9953 3836 9904 $$ RITTERLING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 53 min |
| Jul 31, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 67 min |
| Jul 31, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 26 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.