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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 2, 2004Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 11:07 AM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2004, 11:07 AM CDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 11:13 AM CDT	HAIL 0.75	4 S Cimarron, KS
Jun 2, 11:13 AM CDT	HAIL 0.75	4 S Cimarron, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 2, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

114 
WUUS53 KDDC 021607
SVRDDC
KSC069-021700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1106 AM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL NOON CDT

* AT 1105 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF CIMARRON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CIMARRON.
  ENSIGN.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3798 10052 3753 10052 3751 10022 3798 10025
$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	64 min
Jun 2, 8:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	50 min
Jun 2, 9:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	62 min
Jun 2, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	24 min
Jun 2, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	50 min
Jun 2, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	61 min
Jun 2, 9:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	65 min
Jun 2, 9:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	56 min
Jun 2, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	65 min
Jun 2, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	57 min
Jun 2, 10:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	55 min
Jun 2, 10:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	57 min
Jun 2, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	92 min
Jun 2, 10:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	58 min
Jun 2, 11:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	65 min
Jun 2, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	63 min
Jun 2, 12:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	44 min
Jun 2, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	67 min
Jun 2, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	62 min
Jun 2, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	55 min
Jun 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.