Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Se Minneola, KS | 2-3 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN. |
| Jul 22, 4:00 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 15 Se Minneola, KS | ALSO REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN OVER A SPAN OF 30 MINUTES. |
| Jul 22, 4:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 3 Se Minneola, KS | 2-3 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 39 min |
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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.