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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 2003Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2003, 1:32 AM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2003, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 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 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 240632
SVRDDC
KSC151-240715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
133 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 133 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESTON...MOVING EAST AT
  10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PRESTON AT 150 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AVOID USING THE
TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE
AREA. 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 3782 9876 3772 9873 3767 9846 3781 9848

$$

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, 1:14 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, 1:44 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.