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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2003Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: May 15, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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
May 15, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 695 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

602 
WUUS53 KDDC 160430
SVRDDC
KSC033-097-160515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1128 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1128 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES
  WEST OF MULLINVILLE TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF PROTECTION...OR ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM KINGSDOWN TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF PROTECTION...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PROTECTION AT 1135 PM CDT
  LAKE COLDWATER AT 1155 PM CDT
  MULLINVILLE AT 1210 AM CDT
  COLDWATER AT 1210 AM CDT
  WILMORE AT 1215 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS GREATER THAN 80 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING,

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

SMALL...SHORT LIVED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG THE LEADING 
EDGE OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS

LAT...LON 3736 9952 3704 9953 3722 9913 3772 9921
          3772 9955

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	45 min
May 15, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell, Seward	28 min
May 15, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	44 min
May 15, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Meade	42 min
May 15, 8:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Seward	39 min
May 15, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Meade	42 min
May 15, 10:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	3 hr
May 15, 10:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	26 min
May 15, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	23 min
May 15, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	43 min
May 15, 11:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	38 min
May 15, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	32 min
May 16, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	46 min
May 16, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	23 min
May 16, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	26 min
May 16, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt, Stafford	48 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.