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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 12, 2004Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2004, 6:10 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 12, 2004, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 12, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 12:00Z on 2004-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1442 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

090 
WUUS53 KDDC 122310
SVRDDC
KSC007-033-122345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
610 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUN CITY...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SUN CITY AROUND 630 PM CDT
  LAKE CITY AROUND 635 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3717 9915 3722 9868 3746 9848 3745 9896
          3737 9901 3737 9914
$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber53 min
May 12, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa, Pratt48 min
May 12, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Pratt49 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.