Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2004, 9:05 PM CDT for Gray 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
- Jul 2, 2004, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 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 Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:24 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 N Montezuma, 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 030205 SVRDDC KSC069-030300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 905 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 901 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF GRAY COUNTY... CHARLESTON... INGALLS... MONTEZUMA... THE HAGGARD ELEV... 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 3798 10064 3749 10063 3749 10023 3798 10026 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 75 min |
| Jul 2, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 67 min |
| Jul 2, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 39 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.