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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 29, 2004Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 9 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 29, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDTHAIL 1.7513 Sw Scott City, KS
Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDTHAIL 1.7513 Sw Scott City, KS
Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDTHAIL 1.7513 Sw Scott City, KS
Aug 29, 8:25 PM CDTHAIL 17 Wsw Shallow Water, KS
Aug 29, 8:25 PM CDTHAIL 17 Wsw Shallow Water, KS
Aug 29, 8:25 PM CDTHAIL 17 Wsw Shallow Water, KS
Aug 29, 8:40 PM CDTHAIL 1.54 W Shallow Water, KS
Aug 29, 8:40 PM CDTHAIL 1.54 W Shallow Water, KS
Aug 29, 8:40 PM CDTHAIL 1.54 W Shallow Water, 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 2004-08-30Temperature 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 2004-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 300100
SVRDDC
KSC171-300200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
759 PM CDT SUN AUG 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  WEST SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY...
  MODOC...
  SHALLOW WATER...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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.

THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR
THIS COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3849 10087 3849 10111 3826 10111 3827 10086

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess54 min
Aug 29, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis58 min
Aug 29, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane62 min
Aug 29, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney65 min
Aug 29, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis63 min
Aug 29, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane46 min
Aug 29, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny46 min
Aug 29, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush38 min
Aug 29, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane44 min
Aug 29, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush31 min
Aug 30, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark47 min
Aug 30, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa40 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.