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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2003Lane County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 9:56 PM CDT for Lane County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lane County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 100256
SVRDDC
KSC101-171-100345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MANNING TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY TO 28 MILES
  WEST OF SHALLOW WATER...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
  SOUTH OF THE MONUMENT ROCKS TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MODOC TO 6
  MILES WEST OF LYDIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MANNING AT 1005 PM CDT
  SHALLOW WATER AT 1010 PM CDT
  SHIELDS AT 1020 PM CDT
  PENDENNIS AT 1030 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 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 3869 10090 3846 10108 3827 10155 3827 10072
          3842 10045 3869 10025

$$

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, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	50 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.