Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2003, 5:55 PM CDT for Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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
- Jun 1, 2003, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 012255 SVRDDC KSC067-093-020000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 553 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 32 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN TO 7 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HICKOK AT 620 PM CDT RYUS AT 625 PM CDT LAKIN AT 700 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR. LAT...LON 3825 10154 3740 10152 3739 10109 3825 10111 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every 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.