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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 16, 2004Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2004, 8:01 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 74 min. 4 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: May 16, 2004, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 74 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lane County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
May 16, 9:02 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	9 N Dighton, KS
May 16, 9:02 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	9 N Dighton, KS
May 16, 9:23 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	2 W Healy, KS
May 16, 9:23 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	2 W Healy, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

829 
WUUS53 KDDC 170101
SVRDDC
KSC101-170215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
759 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7
  MILES NORTH OF HEALY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN LANE COUNTY THROUGH 915 PM
  HEALY AROUND 830 PM CDT
  SHIELDS AROUND 845 PM CDGT
  PENDENNIS AROUND 900 PM CDT

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.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR NORTHERN 
LANE COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3869 10067 3845 10067 3845 10025 3869 10025
$$

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane	50 min
May 16, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	75 min
May 16, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ness	49 min
May 16, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Scott	45 min
May 16, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	43 min
May 16, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	64 min
May 16, 9:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	44 min
May 16, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	66 min
May 16, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	61 min
May 16, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	61 min
May 17, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	37 min
May 17, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.