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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2004, 11:25 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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
- Aug 10, 2004, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 11:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 Nw Wakeeney, KS | |
| Aug 10, 11:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 Nw Wakeeney, KS |
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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 110425 SVRDDC KSC195-110530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1125 PM CDT TUE AUG 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1123 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 6 MILES NORTH OF COLLYER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF TREGO COUNTY... COLLYER... VODA... WAKEENEY... TREGO CENTER... OGALLAH... RIGA... 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 3912 10013 3871 10013 3871 9961 3911 9962 $$ 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, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 77 min |
| Aug 10, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 56 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 |
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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.