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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2003, 12:46 AM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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 24, 2003, 12:46 AM CDT (05:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gray County, KS
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 24, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 1125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 240546 SVRDDC KSC069-240630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1245 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1245 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INGALLS AT 100 AM CDT CIMARRON AT 110 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED. LAT...LON 3798 10066 3765 10064 3765 10022 3798 10025 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 43 min |
| May 24, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| May 24, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 61 min |
| May 24, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 43 min |
| May 24, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| May 24, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 62 min |
| May 24, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 50 min |
| May 24, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 57 min |
| May 24, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 24, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 61 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.