Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2004, 12:21 PM CST for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 27, 2004, 12:21 PM CST (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2004, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
071 WUUS53 KDDC 271821 SVRDDC KSC057-083-271900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1220 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SPEARVILLE...BELLEFONT SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GRAY * UNTIL 100 PM CST * AT 1220 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED AND RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPEARVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... BELLEFONT BY 1230 PM CST 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAY BY 100 PM CST HAIL UP TO NICKELS HAS BEEN REPORTED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF WRIGHT WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. LAT...LON 3787 9991 3765 9976 3795 9956 3819 9961 $$ 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 56 min |
| Mar 27, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 60 min |
| Mar 27, 1:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 1:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 67 min |
| Mar 27, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 2:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 76 min |
| Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.