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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 20, 2004Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2004, 1:16 AM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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: Apr 20, 2004, 1:16 AM CDT (06:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:17 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
Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 200616
SVRDDC
KSC119-200700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
116 AM CDT TUE APR 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 113 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF
  MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3701 10045 3701 10011 3717 10010 3713 10034

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	64 min
Apr 19, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	46 min
Apr 20, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	55 min
Apr 20, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	43 min
Apr 20, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	51 min
Apr 20, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	57 min
Apr 20, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	54 min
Apr 20, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	42 min
Apr 20, 1:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	3 hr
Apr 20, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	61 min
Apr 20, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	54 min
Apr 20, 2:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Clark	3 hr

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.