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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 27, 2004Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2004, 12:32 PM CST for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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: Mar 27, 2004, 12:32 PM CST (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2004, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
Mar 27, 11:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 271832
SVRDDC
KSC051-271930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1233 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...YOCEMENTO...ELLIS

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1231 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELLIS...OR ABOUT OVER CEDAR
  BLUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3896 9958 3872 9958 3897 9917 3912 9924
          3911 9945

$$

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 11:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	51 min
Mar 27, 12:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	47 min
Mar 27, 12:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	39 min
Mar 27, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	56 min
Mar 27, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	60 min
Mar 27, 1:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	38 min
Mar 27, 1:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee	33 min
Mar 27, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	67 min
Mar 27, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	48 min
Mar 27, 2:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	36 min
Mar 27, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee	25 min
Mar 27, 2:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	58 min
Mar 27, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	63 min
Mar 27, 4:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	59 min
Mar 27, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	57 min
Mar 27, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	35 min
Mar 27, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	76 min
Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	60 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.