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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2003Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2003, 11:43 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
32 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), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 2003-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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 2003-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 417 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
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.

559 
WUUS53 KDDC 160443
SVRDDC
KSC057-160515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1142 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FT. DODGE TO FORD TO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUCKLIN...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WINDTHORST AT 1155 PM CDT
  BELLEFONT AT MIDNIGHT CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR 
SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 3790 10008 3748 9999 3748 9957 3790 9958

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny45 min
May 15, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell, Seward28 min
May 15, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade, Seward44 min
May 15, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade42 min
May 15, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward39 min
May 15, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMeade42 min
May 15, 10:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCMeade, Seward3 hr
May 15, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade26 min
May 15, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade23 min
May 15, 10:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade43 min
May 15, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade38 min
May 15, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa45 min
May 16, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt46 min
May 16, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa23 min
May 16, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards26 min
May 16, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt, Stafford48 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.