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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2004, 11:44 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 5, 2004, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 2977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 060444 SVRDDC KSC057-060530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1143 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1139 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES WEST OF KINGSDOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY... KINGSDOWN... 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 3777 10019 3751 10020 3748 10015 3748 9961 $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 69 min |
| Jul 5, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 86 min |
| Jul 5, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 27 min |
| Jul 5, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade, Seward | 91 min |
| Jul 6, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 86 min |
| Jul 6, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 91 min |
| Jul 6, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 33 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.