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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 4, 2004Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2004, 9:05 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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 4, 2004, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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 4, 9:25 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	2 E Holcomb, 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 1684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

087 
WUUS53 KDDC 050205
SVRDDC
KSC055-050300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
905 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 900 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 NEAR
  HOLCOMB...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF FINNEY COUNTY...
  HOLCOMB...
  GARDEN CITY...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3807 10106 3788 10100 3790 10067 3800 10067
          3809 10035 3823 10051
$$

FINCH

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 4, 2:13 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:13 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
213 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2004

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...

FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY
NIGHT AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS.

UPPER AIR ANALYSES AND WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH
MOVING OVER THE RIDGE OVER COLORADO AND UTAH AND THIS WILL MOVE EAST
INTO WESTERN KANSAS TONIGHT. ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN THE LOW LEVELS
WITH 850 DEWPOINTS CLIMBING TO 10 TO 12C OVER WESTERN KANSAS ALONG
WITH THE SHORTWAVE WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A LARGE MCS TO MOVE
ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS OVERNIGHT. WARM H7 TEMPS OF 12 TO 14C MAY
INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER THIS EVENING,
HOWEVER WILL THROUGH IN A SMALL POP TO COVER. WILL GO WITH 40 TO
70 POPS ELSEWHERE WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABABLITY OF RAINFALL FROM NESS
CITY TO PRATT WHERE LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD BE NEAR AN INCH OR
MORE. THE WEAK SHEAR PROFILE SUGGESTS THIS MCS COULD BE MORE OF A
HEAVY RAIN EVENT THAN LOTS OF SEVERE, BUT THINK A FEW DIME TO NICKEL
HAIL REPORTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. WILL ADD MENTION OF SOME POSSIBLY
SEVERE FOR TONIGHT WITH MAINLY A FEW PULSE SEVERE STORMS.

FOR SATURDAY SOME LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY EAST OF
DODGE CITY UNTIL NOON, WITH SKIES BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY. THEN
ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL DIG ACROSS WEST KANSAS DURING THE
AFTERNOON WITH A COLD FRONT AND ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS.
WILL GO WITH A 3O T0 40 POP TO COVER INTO THE EARLY EVENING ON
SATURDAY NIGHT. AS BAROCLINIC ZONE AND SHORTWAVE MOVE SOUTH OF AREA
BY MIDNIGHT THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD END.

FOR SUNDAY WITH SOME MID LEVEL RIDGING AND WARMING, TEMPS SHOULD
WARM BACK UP INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S. THE LACK OF ANY UPPER AIR
DISTURBANCE AND SOME WARMER TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE LAYERS
PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORMS FOR SUNDAY.

DAYS 3-7...

THE BASE STATE OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE CIRCULATION AT THE MOMENT
APPEARS TO BE A SOMEWHAT PROGRESSIVE WAVE 5 TO WAVE 6. LOOKING AT
THE LOW FREQUENCY VARIABLES THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT AREA OF
PERSISTENT TROPICAL CONVECTION BETWEEN ABOUT 100E AND THE DATE LINE
AND GLOBAL AVERAGE ANGULAR MOMENTUM IS AT LOW EBB. FEEDBACKS FROM
THE TROPICAL CONVECTION HAVE BASICALLY SUPPORTED THE CURRENT
CIRCULATION REGIME OVER THE CONUS AND THIS SITUATION SHOULD REMAIN
IN PLACE FOR AT LEAST MY FORECAST PERIOD. AS A RESULT WILL LOOK FOR
NO HUGE CHANGES AS A WEAK AND SOMEWHAT NEBULOUS UPPER RIDGE HOVERS
OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS WITH MEAN UPPER TROUGHING OVER THE EAST
PACIFIC INTO THE WESTERN CONUS. THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE LONG
RANGE MODELS DO. THE GOING GRIDS HAVE FOLLOWED THIS IDEA. WITH NO
STRONG INDICATION OF CHANGE AVAILABLE I DO NOT THINK THE GOING
FORECAST CAN BE IMPROVED UPON AND WILL PRETTY MUCH LEAVE IT ALONE.
BASICALLY, A WARM AND REASONABLY DRY PERIOD IS AT HAND.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...

DDC 62 84 60 87 / 50 40 40 00
GCK 62 84 58 87 / 20 40 40 00
EHA 62 86 58 88 / 20 30 40 00
LBL 63 86 60 87 / 20 30 40 00
HYS 63 83 58 85 / 60 40 40 00
P28 65 85 63 86 / 50 60 40 00
&&

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

06/08

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 2:16 PM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
216 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2004

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-051000-
BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-ELLIS-FINNEY-FORD-GRANT-GRAY-HAMILTON-
HASKELL-HODGEMAN-KEARNY-KIOWA-LANE-MEADE-MORTON-NESS-PAWNEE-PRATT-
RUSH-SCOTT-SEWARD-STAFFORD-STANTON-STEVENS-TREGO-
216 PM CDT (116 PM MDT) FRI JUN 4 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST
KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND FAR WESTERN KANSAS ALONG A LEE
TROUGH. THE ACTIVITY IS THEN EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS
WESTERN KANSAS TONIGHT. ISOLATED STORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED EARLY
ON, WITH STORMS ORGANIZING INTO CLUSTERS AS THE EVENING
PROGRESSES. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
SOUTHWEST KANSAS ON SATURDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH INTO
KANSAS ON SATURDAY AND WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AT THIS POINT, IT APPEARS THE PRIMARY
THREAT AREA WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A HAYS TO LIBERAL LINE.
THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT
SUNDAY MORNING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

06

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
648 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 2004

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

0638 PM     HAIL             8 W MANTER              37.52N 102.03W
06/04/2004  0.88 INCH        STANTON            KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0638 PM     HAIL             3 W JOHNSON CITY        37.57N 101.81W
06/04/2004  1.00 INCH        STANTON            KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

FREDERKING

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
659 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 2004

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

0645 PM     HAIL             12 NE RICHFIELD         37.39N 101.63W
06/04/2004  1.00 INCH        STANTON            KS   PUBLIC

&&

FREDERKING

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
712 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 2004

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

0658 PM     HAIL             10 S SYRACUSE           37.84N 101.75W
06/04/2004  1.00 INCH        HAMILTON           KS   PUBLIC

&&

FREDERKING

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
719 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 2004

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

0717 PM     HAIL             11 S KENDALL            37.78N 101.54W
06/04/2004  1.00 INCH        KEARNEY            KS   PUBLIC

&&

FREDERKING

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:14 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
814 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 2004

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

0730 PM     HAIL             13 N COOLIDGE           38.23N 102.01W
06/04/2004  1.00 INCH        HAMILTON           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

FREDERKING

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:58 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
858 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 2004

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

0800 PM     HAIL             4 W LAKIN               37.94N 101.33W
06/04/2004  0.75 INCH        KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

0800 PM     HAIL             7 SW LAKIN              37.87N 101.35W
06/04/2004  0.75 INCH        KEARNY             KS   PUBLIC

&&

FREDERKING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	49 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	55 min
Jun 4, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	60 min
Jun 4, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	46 min
Jun 4, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	48 min
Jun 4, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	48 min
Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	60 min
Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	61 min
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	55 min
Jun 5, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	60 min
Jun 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell, Seward	42 min
Jun 5, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	56 min
Jun 5, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	43 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	63 min
Jun 5, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	42 min
Jun 5, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	66 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	58 min
Jun 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	45 min
Jun 5, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	74 min
Jun 5, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	81 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.