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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2003Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2003, 6:34 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 13, 2003, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2003-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 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 2003-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1315 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 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.

631 
WUUS53 KDDC 132334
SVRDDC
KSC067-140015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
634 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 634 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HICKOK...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL GRANT COUNTY AT 650 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING,
  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 HEAVY RAINS FLOOD
ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3772 10109 3773 10151 3740 10150 3741 10109

$$

BERRY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant29 min
Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward45 min
Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every 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.