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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 16, 2004Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2004, 5:58 AM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 16, 2004, 5:58 AM MDT (11:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2004, 7:00 AM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:58 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, 12.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1442 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

144 
WUUS53 KDDC 161158
SVRDDC
KSC075-161300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
557 AM MDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 AM MDT

* AT 552 AM MDT...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 5 MILES
  WEST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF HAMILTON COUNTY...
  SYRACUSE...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THIS COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3824 10202 3776 10201 3777 10155 3824 10157

$$

BURKE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton53 min
Jun 15, 6:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton40 min
Jun 15, 7:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton41 min
Jun 16, 5:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton37 min
Jun 16, 7:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny49 min
Jun 16, 9:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny59 min
Jun 16, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Morton, Stanton80 min
Jun 16, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.