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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2004, 1:57 PM CST for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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
- Mar 27, 2004, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2004, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
856 WUUS53 KDDC 271957 SVRDDC KSC097-272045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 157 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WELLSFORD * UNTIL 245 PM CST * AT 155 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WELLSFORD...OR ABOUT OVER BELVIDERE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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 3743 9924 3740 9915 3747 9902 3770 9902 $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 12:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 56 min |
| Mar 27, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 60 min |
| Mar 27, 1:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 1:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 67 min |
| Mar 27, 2:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 76 min |
| Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 60 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.