Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2003, 1:14 AM CDT for Edwards County, Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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 240614 SVRDDC KSC047-057-083-240700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 113 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 113 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF BELLEFONT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED OFFERLE AT 125 AM CDT KINSLEY AT 200 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3801 9973 3780 9971 3774 9919 3798 9908 $$ BURGERT
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, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 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.