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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 15, 2003Finney County, Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2003, 3:18 PM CDT for Finney County, Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 15, 2003, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Finney County, KS, Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -518 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -32 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.

772 
WUUS53 KDDC 152018
SVRDDC
KSC055-101-152115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
316 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIGHTON...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF FRIEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DIGHTON AT 345 PM CDT
  ALAMOTA AT 350 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 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 3814 10079 3803 10063 3834 10026 3857 10026
          3859 10043 3825 10066

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	60 min
Apr 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	51 min
Apr 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	66 min
Apr 15, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	55 min
Apr 15, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	59 min
Apr 15, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	61 min
Apr 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	54 min
Apr 15, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	51 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.