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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2004, 11:13 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 77 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 10, 2004, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 77 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 110413 SVRDDC KSC129-110530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1113 PM CDT TUE AUG 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1110 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 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICHFIELD...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF MORTON COUNTY... RICHFIELD... ROLLA... WILBURTON... 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 3738 10156 3737 10203 3700 10203 3702 10158 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.