Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2004, 6:24 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 14 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 21, 2004, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 6:40 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:49 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 Ssw Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 Ne Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 W Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:51 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 Nw Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 Nw Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 S Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 2 N Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:54 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 3 Nw Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 N Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 21, 6:56 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 N Dodge 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 21, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 212324 SVRDDC KSC057-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 623 PM CDT FRI MAY 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF HOWELL....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOWELL AROUND 630 PM CDT. DODGE CITY AROUND 645 PM CDT. 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FT. DODGE AROUND 650 PM CDT. 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WRIGHT AROUND 700 PM CDT. 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPEARVILLE AROUND 715 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3748 10020 3761 9970 3789 9960 3791 10020 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 50 min |
| May 20, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 59 min |
| May 21, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 65 min |
| May 21, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.