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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2003Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2003, 5:57 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 23, 2003, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
48 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), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 2003-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1681 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 2003-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 380 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-356 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
380 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
461 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

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WUUS53 KDDC 232257
SVRDDC
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
557 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 555 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF WILBURTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES   
  NORTH OF ELKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE      
  THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RICHFIELD AT 610 PM CDT
  ELKHART AT 615 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR

LAT...LON 3700 10203 3701 10157 3737 10157 3737 10203

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton50 min
Jun 23, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny46 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.