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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2003Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 5:35 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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 10, 2003, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 271 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
271 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-439 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

613 
WUUS53 KDDC 102235
SVRDDC
KSC151-102315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
534 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 534 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAWYER.  THIS STORM WAS 
  NEARLY STATIONARY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CAIRO AT 615 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3748 9887 3748 9848 3781 9847 3780 9866

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens44 min
Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade31 min
Jun 9, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade26 min
Jun 9, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade48 min
Jun 9, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa50 min
Jun 9, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott49 min
Jun 9, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego42 min
Jun 10, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt45 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.