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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 10:33 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
605 WUUS53 KDDC 100333 SVRDDC KSC195-100415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1032 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1032 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF VODA TO 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TREGO CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WAKEENEY AT 1045 PM CDT TREGO CENTER AT 1055 PM CDT OGALLAH AT 1110 PM CDT RIGA AT 1115 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, WINDS OF 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. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3912 10012 3871 10015 3871 9962 3912 9960 $$ 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, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 49 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.