Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 2003, 4:58 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 20, 2003, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 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 202158 SVRDDC KSC189-202300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 457 PM CDT SAT SEP 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 457 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF HUGOTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF FETERITA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HUGOTON AT 525 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, 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 3732 10154 3716 10154 3715 10126 3736 10126 $$ FINCH WUUS53 KDDC 202158 RRA SVRDDC KSC129-202215- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 455 PM CDT SAT SEP 20 2003 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR MORTON COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM CDT... AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MORTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF FETERITA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. AT 445 PM THE PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY. LAT...LON 3731 10165 3716 10162 3716 10156 3734 10156 & $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 56 min |
| Sep 20, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 49 min |
| Sep 20, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 59 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.