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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 10, 2003Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2003, 9:37 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
Sep 10, 2003, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 1 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 10, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1765 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
9.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110237
SVRDDC
KSC057-110315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
937 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOWELL...OR ABOUT OVER
  ENSIGN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HOWELL AT 945 PM CDT
  DODGE CITY AT 955 PM CDT
  FT. DODGE AT 1000 PM CDT
  WRIGHT AT 1005 PM CDT
  SPEARVILLE AT 1015 PM CDT

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



LAT...LON 3790 10022 3748 10020 3750 10001 3785 9957
          3790 9958

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 7:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush3 hr
Sep 10, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray52 min
Sep 10, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray34 min
Sep 10, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee40 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.