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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 10, 2004Trego County, Kansas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 11:40 PM CDTHAIL 18 Nw Wakeeney, KS
Aug 10, 11:40 PM CDTHAIL 18 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 913 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 2004-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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
$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 min
Aug 10, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant61 min
Aug 10, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton48 min
Aug 10, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton77 min
Aug 10, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton56 min
Aug 10, 11:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStanton39 min
Aug 10, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens64 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.