Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2004, 9:26 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 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, 9:26 PM CDT (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ness County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:40 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 Se Ness City, KS | |
| May 16, 9:40 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 Se Ness City, 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
383 WUUS53 KDDC 170226 SVRDDC KSC135-170330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 924 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 919 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 5 MILES WEST OF NESS CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NESS CITY AROUND 930 PM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAZINE AROUND 1000 PM RURAL RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NESS COUNTY THROUGH 1030 PM CDT. 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. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3865 10017 3829 10023 3829 9962 3866 9964 $$ 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, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 74 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, 9:46 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 |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.