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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 19, 2003Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2003, 2:06 PM CDT for Kiowa 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, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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
Apr 19, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 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.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 191906
SVRDDC
KSC097-192000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 206 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES NORTH OF COLDWATER...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MULLINVILLE AT 235 PM CDT
  GREENSBURG AT 240 PM CDT

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

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3739 9953 3738 9921 3771 9917 3772 9955

$$

FINCH

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, 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, 2:38 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.