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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2003Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 9:40 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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 9, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.

161 
WUUS53 KDDC 100240
SVRDDC
KSC033-097-100330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 939 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
  WEST OF MULLINVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE TO            
  PROTECTION...MOVING   EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MULLINVILLE AT 945 PM CDT
  COLDWATER AT 950 PM CDT
  GREENSBURG AT 1005 PM CDT
  WILMORE AT 1010 PM CDT
  BELVIDERE AT 1025 PM CDT
  HAVILAND AT 1030 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3763 9955 3743 9954 3712 9954 3726 9901
          3771 9902 3773 9918

$$

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, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	26 min
Jun 9, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	48 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

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.