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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2004, 6:59 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- May 10, 2004, 6:59 PM MDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
744 WUUS53 KDDC 110059 SVRDDC KSC075-110130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 659 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 657 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY THROUGH 710 PM MDT 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 3796 10181 3797 10155 3825 10156 3825 10183 $$ KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 81 min |
| May 10, 6:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 29 min |
| May 10, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 43 min |
| May 10, 9:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 57 min |
| May 10, 11:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.