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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 2, 2004Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 12:28 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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, 1:30 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Dighton, KS
Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Dighton, KS

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

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.

757 
WUUS53 KDDC 021728
SVRDDC
KSC101-021830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1227 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1226 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 1 MILE WEST OF AMY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  AMY.
  DIGHTON.
  ALAMOTA.

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 3856 10067 3829 10066 3829 10027 3857 10027
$$

KRUSE

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:53 AM CDT, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:53 AM CDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
253 AM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...
THE CHALLENGE THIS CYCLE WILL BE DUE TO DRY AIR IN THE LOW LEVELS AS
WE TRY TO DIVINE ITS INFLUENCE ON HIGH BASED INSTABILITY AND
TEMPERATURES.

NO SURPRISES FOUND DURING DIAGNOSIS THIS MORNING AS THE BROAD WEAK
UPPER RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN CONUS CONTINUES TO FEED THE MEAN EAST
COAST UPPER TROUGH WITH A SERIES OF FAST MOVING WAVES ALONG THE
UPPER BAROCLINIC ZONE. THE MODELS INITIALIZED REASONABLY WELL AND
ALL OF THEM FORECAST GRADUALLY HEIGHT RISES ALOFT OVER THE WESTERN
HALF OF THE CONUS THROUGH DAY 2 WHICH WILL SERVE TO MAINTAIN A
WEAKENING NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT PATTERN OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH
PLAINS. THIS WILL CONTINUE THE WEAK ELEVATED INSTABILITY OVER TOP OF
SOME VERY DRY LOW LEVEL AIR AT LEAST THROUGH TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SOME VERY HIGH BASED VIRGA SHOWERS CONTINUE ON RADAR BUT LITTLE OR
NONE OF IT REACHING TERRA FIRMA AND AM THUS RELUCTANT TO EXPAND POPS
ANY FOR TODAY AND WILL LEAVE THE LOW POPS ACROSS THE CWA FOR TONIGHT
AS ALL MODELS SUGGEST SOMETHING FIRING UP AGAINST THE HIGH TERRAIN
IN SOUTHERN COLORADO AND WORKING EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF
SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND THE PANHANDLES. THE GFS HAS BLOWN UP A HUGE
AREA OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION WITH THIS, BUT BELIEVE THAT IS MAINLY
FROM CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK INTO THE ARAKAWA-SCHUBERT SCHEME. ON
THURSDAY THE SHIFT TO MORE SOUTHERLY FLOW COULD FINALLY BRING SOME
MORE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NORTH AS THE MODELS THUS CORRESPONDINGLY
HIGHER POPS SEEM IN ORDER.

HAVE LEFT TEMPERATURES PRETTY MUCH ALONE. HIGHS WILL BE LIMITED BY
VARIABLE AMOUNTS OF CLOUD COVER IN THE UPPER BAROCLINIC ZONE TODAY
AND TOMORROW. DRY AIR TONIGHT WILL ALLOW GOOD COOLING BUT INCREASING
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TOMORROW NIGHT WILL INHIBIT THE COOLING. ALL THIS
WAS PRETTY WELL COVERED BY THE PREVIOUS FORECASTER AND HAVE LEFT IT
IN PLACE.

DAYS 3-7...
CHANCES FOR CONVECTION IN THE PERTURBED NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL BE
THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE THROUGH THIS WEEKEND.  ALL THE MODELS
SEEM TO BE LATCHING ONTO THE IDEA OF A FAIRLY ACTIVE WEST-NORTHWEST
PATTERN THROUGH THE DAY 5 PERIOD.  ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE THAT
CURRENTLY RESIDES ACROSS TEXAS WILL EVENTUALLY WORK NORTH INTO THE
CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS AS LEESIDE PRESSURES LOWER IN THE HIGH ZONAL
INDEX REGIME ACROSS THE ROCKIES.  INITIALLY, CONVECTION WILL BE
MAINLY TIED TO MOIST UPSLOPE PROCESSES TO OUR WEST OVER COLORADO,
HOWEVER, AS A S/WV TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE PATTERN THIS WEEKEND,
SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT SHOULD LEAD TO ENHANCED BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE
FLUX CONVERGENCE AND SUBSEQUENT CONVECTION ON THE PLAINS.. LEADING
TO POTENTIAL MCSS.

I HAVE BUMPED UP POPS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY TO CHANCE POPS FOR
EVERYBODY, JUST 30S FOR NOW, BUT WILL LIKELY NEED TO INCREASE THE
PROBABILITIES AS SIGNALS FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES BECOME
CLEARER.  WEAK SYNOPTIC FRONT AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL PLAY A
ROLE IN CONTINUED CHANCES FOR PRECIP INTO SUNDAY, IT WOULD APPEAR,
AND THUS HAVE PUT SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE GRIDS FOR
STARTERS.  A SIGNIFICANT STORM SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE
NORTHWEST STATES BY EARLY NEXT WEEK, WHICH WILL RAISE DOWNSTREAM
MIDDLE-UPPER TROPOSPHERIC HEIGHTS, AND REFOCUSING FRONTOGENESIS
FARTHER NORTH.  EARLY NEXT WEEK WOULD APPEAR TO BE DRY UNTIL THIS
LARGE SCALE TROUGH...IN WHATEVER FORM IT MAY BE IN...MOVES FARTHER
INLAND INTO THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...

DDC 81 56 82 60 / 20 20 20 30
GCK 82 54 83 58 / 20 20 20 30
EHA 84 56 84 55 / 20 20 30 30
LBL 83 57 83 59 / 20 20 20 30
HYS 81 54 81 59 / 00 00 10 30
P28 82 58 82 62 / 10 20 10 30
&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.

&&

JOHNSON/UMSCHEID

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
959 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0956 AM     HAIL             2 NW DODGE CITY         37.78N 100.04W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        FORD               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

0958 AM     HAIL             DODGE CITY              37.76N 100.02W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        FORD               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 10:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1010 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0930 AM     HAIL             3 S LEWIS               37.89N 99.25W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        EDWARDS            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

0930 AM     HAIL             11 SE BEELER            38.32N 100.06W
06/02/2004  0.88 INCH        NESS               KS   PUBLIC

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 10:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
1013 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1001 AM     HAIL             2 N DODGE CITY          37.79N 100.02W
06/02/2004  1.50 INCH        FORD               KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

1009 AM     HAIL             3 NE GREENSBURG         37.64N 99.25W
06/02/2004  0.88 INCH        KIOWA              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 10:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1034 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0915 AM     TSTM WND DMG     4 NE KINSLEY            37.96N 99.36W
06/02/2004                   EDWARDS            KS   PUBLIC

            2 TO 4 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN.

0925 AM     HAIL             SCOTT CITY              38.48N 100.91W
06/02/2004  0.88 INCH        SCOTT              KS   PUBLIC

0958 AM     HAIL             1 NNE DODGE CITY        37.77N 100.01W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        FORD               KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

0959 AM     HAIL             2 N DODGE CITY          37.79N 100.02W
06/02/2004  1.50 INCH        FORD               KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

1000 AM     HAIL             2 NNE DODGE CITY        37.79N 100.00W
06/02/2004  1.75 INCH        FORD               KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 11:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
1125 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1050 AM     HAIL             16 W JETMORE            38.08N 100.19W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        HODGEMAN           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

1113 AM     HAIL             4 S CIMARRON            37.75N 100.35W
06/02/2004  0.75 INCH        GRAY               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

1117 AM     HAIL             GREENSBURG              37.61N 99.29W
06/02/2004  0.88 INCH        KIOWA              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

1016 AM     HAIL             10 S GREENSBURG         37.46N 99.29W
06/02/2004  0.75 INCH        KIOWA              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 12:14 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
1214 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1208 PM     HAIL             CLARK STATE LAKE        37.39N 99.78W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        CLARK              KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

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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, 11:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	53 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, 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.