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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 15, 2003Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2003, 4:09 PM CDT for Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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: Apr 15, 2003, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grant County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -518 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 152109 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC067-093-152215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
409 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 409 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES SOUTH OF LAKIN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ULYSSES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LAKIN AT 435 PM CDT
  DEERFIELD AT 445 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

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

LAT...LON 3767 10140 3759 10117 3780 10111 3808 10111
          3809 10128

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	57 min
Apr 15, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	60 min
Apr 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	51 min
Apr 15, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	55 min
Apr 15, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	59 min
Apr 15, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	61 min
Apr 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	54 min
Apr 15, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	51 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.