Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2004, 7:12 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stafford County, KS
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 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KDDC 130012
SVRDDC
KSC185-130115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
712 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 707 PM CDT...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 14
MILES SOUTH OF MACKSVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER BYERS...MOVING NORTH AT
30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DILLWYN AND MACKSVILLE AROUND 735 PM CDT
6 MILES WEST OF ST. JOHN AROUND 740 PM CDT
SEWARD AROUND 805 PM CDT
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
AND OCCASIONALLY DO DEVELOP WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
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.
LAT...LON 3783 9900 3783 9852 3819 9848 3818 9890
3799 9888 3799 9901
$$
UMSCHEIDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 31 min |
| May 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 40 min |
| May 12, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 39 min |
| May 12, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 49 min |
| May 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 45 min |
| May 12, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 48 min |
| May 13, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 41 min |
| May 13, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 31 min |
| May 13, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 29 min |
| May 13, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 18 min |
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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.