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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 22, 2004Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2004, 3:34 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 3 reports 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 22, 2004, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
41 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), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 3:45 PM CDTTSTM WND DMG4 Se Minneola, KS2-3 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN.
Jul 22, 4:00 PM CDTHAIL 0.7515 Se Minneola, KSALSO REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN OVER A SPAN OF 30 MINUTES.
Jul 22, 4:25 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 703 Se Minneola, KS2-3 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWNED.

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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 44 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 263 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 222034
SVRDDC
KSC025-222115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
334 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  CLARK STATE LAKE.  THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY...
  CLARK STATE LAKE...

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 3746 10009 3718 10008 3731 9959 3746 9962

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade55 min
Jul 22, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade48 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward45 min
Jul 22, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord39 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.