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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2004, 6:28 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 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 4, 2004, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 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), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 4, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
468 WUUS53 KDDC 042328 SVRDDC KSC129-042345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 628 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 623 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTY... RICHFIELD... 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. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THIS COUNTY. LAT...LON 3737 10184 3724 10184 3724 10158 3738 10157 $$ BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.