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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 21, 2004Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2004, 7:14 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 5 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, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 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), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
May 21, 7:38 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Dodge City, KS
May 21, 7:40 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	1 Sw Dodge City, KS
May 21, 7:49 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	1 Sw Dodge City, KS
May 21, 7:54 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Dodge City, KS
May 21, 8:16 PM CDT	HAIL 1	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 00:00Z, 0.2 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.

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: 2863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 18.3

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The text

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

439 
WUUS53 KDDC 220014
SVRDDC
KSC057-220115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
712 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 815 PM CDT

* AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...
  AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED   
  NEAR WRIGHT....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE STORM WAS 
  LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FOWLER WHICH WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN 
  FORD COUNTY THROUGH 8 PM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SPEARVILLE AROUND 720 PM CDT.
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLEFONT AROUND 740 PM CDT.

AT 640 PM CDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED 2 INCH SIZE HAIL IN DODGE CITY.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR 
FORD COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3748 10020 3748 9958 3790 9959 3790 9998
          3773 10020
$$

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UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	44 min
May 21, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	48 min
May 21, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	30 min
May 21, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	55 min
May 21, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	65 min
May 21, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	58 min
May 21, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	40 min
May 21, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	52 min
May 21, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	29 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.