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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2003Clark County, Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:34 PM CDT for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 9, 2003, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 100134
SVRDDC
KSC025-119-100200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
834 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 834 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF MEADE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  FOWLER AT 845 PM CDT 
  MINNEOLA AT 855 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 3740 10052 3709 10014 3746 9977 3746 10021
          3747 10051

$$

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	44 min
Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	31 min
Jun 9, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	48 min
Jun 9, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	50 min
Jun 9, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	49 min
Jun 9, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	42 min
Jun 10, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	40 min
Jun 10, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	45 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.