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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 7:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 7 S Ensign, 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
459 WUUS53 KDDC 220030 SVRDDC KSC069-220100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 728 PM CDT FRI MAY 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL... AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF THE HAGGARD ELEV....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES EAST OF ENSIGN AROUND 740 PM CDT. AT 707 PM CDT SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WITH THIS STORM 7 MILES NORTH OF FOWLER IN MEADE 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 3748 10043 3747 10022 3773 10022 $$ & JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 61 min |
| 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, 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.