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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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 7, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 080230 SVRDDC KSC051-080300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 929 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF ANTONINO...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN ELLIS COUNTY... SCHOENCHEN... 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. 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. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING ISSUED FOR ELLIS COUNTY. LAT...LON 3883 9958 3870 9958 3870 9904 3878 9904 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 81 min |
| Jul 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 73 min |
| Jul 7, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 73 min |
| Jul 7, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 68 min |
| Jul 8, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 47 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.