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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 2004Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2004, 7:05 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
Aug 7, 2004, 7:05 PM MDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2004, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 00:00Z on 2004-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1339 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 00:00Z on 2004-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 080105
SVRDDC
KSC075-187-080145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
705 PM MDT SAT AUG 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
  STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT(845 PM CDT)

* AT 703 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF COOLIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF HAMILTON COUNTY...
  RURAL AREAS OF STANTON COUNTY...
  COOLIDGE...
  SYRACUSE...
  MANTER...
  JOHNSON CITY...

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 STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS.  SEEK 
SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3822 10204 3744 10203 3742 10154 3821 10156
$$

GERARD

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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.