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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 21, 2004Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2004, 7:26 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
Apr 21, 2004, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stevens County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 21, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 2004-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 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 220026
SVRDDC
KSC189-220115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
725 PM CDT WED APR 21 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WOODS...MOSCOW...CAVE

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 723 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 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF WOODS AROUND 735 PM CDT

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THIS COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3738 10128 3701 10127 3702 10108 3739 10108

$$

LACY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche45 min
Apr 21, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward60 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.