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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2003Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2003, 7:35 PM CDT for Morton 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 13, 2003, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 371 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 140035
SVRDDC
KSC129-140115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RICHFIELD AT 800 PM CDT
  ROLLA AT 815 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3738 10156 3738 10202 3700 10203 3701 10157

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens50 min
Jun 13, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton34 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens27 min
Jun 14, 2:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord3 hr

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.