Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2004, 6:07 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 4 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 15, 2004, 6:07 PM MDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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 15, 6:33 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | Johnson City, KS | |
| Jun 15, 6:36 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | 8 N Coolidge, KS | |
| Jun 15, 6:48 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 63 | 8 N Coolidge, KS | |
| Jun 15, 6:48 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 8 N Coolidge, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 160007 SVRDDC KSC075-187-160100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 700 PM MDT(800 PM CDT) * AT 603 PM MDT...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 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF HAMILTON COUNTY... RURAL AREAS OF STANTON COUNTY... MANTER... JOHNSON CITY... COOLIDGE... SYRACUSE... 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 3823 10204 3741 10203 3741 10155 3824 10158 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 5:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 7:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 9:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 80 min |
| Jun 16, 5:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 34 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.