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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2004Ness County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2004, 6:54 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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 9, 2004, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ness County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 2004-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 762 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 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
762 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 092354
SVRDDC
KSC135-100045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
653 PM CDT MON AUG 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 652 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEASTERN HODGEMAN
  COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY...


LAT...LON 3832 9985 3826 9981 3827 9959 3844 9959
$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush43 min
Aug 9, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee44 min
Aug 9, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber45 min
Aug 9, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark61 min
Aug 9, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord46 min
Aug 9, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord47 min
Aug 9, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray61 min
Aug 9, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman57 min
Aug 9, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton60 min
Aug 9, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman47 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.