Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2004, 5:23 PM CDT for Finney County, Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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 17, 2004, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Finney County, KS, Lane County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -498 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 568 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 639 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
208
WUUS53 KDDC 172223
SVRDDC
KSC055-101-172300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
520 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
NORTHEASTERN FINNEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
KALVESTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LAT...LON 3825 10049 3813 10039 3817 10022 3825 10023
3830 10025
$$
LACYThe 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, 9:26 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.