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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2004, 5:57 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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 29, 2004, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 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 292257 SVRDDC KSC151-292315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 557 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF CAIRO... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRESTON AROUND 605 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO DEVELOP WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 3780 9892 3747 9895 3748 9849 3781 9848 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 59 min |
| May 29, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| May 29, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 50 min |
| May 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 min |
| May 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 17 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.