Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2004, 6:43 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 4, 2004, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 4, 6:48 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Sitka, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 042343 SVRDDC KSC025-050030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 643 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 640 PM 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 NEAR SITKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN CLARK COUNTY... SITKA... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3718 9983 3710 9957 3738 9955 3743 9969 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 23 min |
| Jul 4, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 77 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.