Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 2:40 AM CDT for Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 13, 2004, 2:40 AM CDT (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551 WUUS53 KDDC 130740 SVRDDC KSC151-185-130830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 240 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 238 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PRESTON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY... PRESTON... NEOLA... ZENITH... 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 3766 9873 3762 9849 3809 9848 3808 9872 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 75 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.