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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2004Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2004, 6:28 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 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, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 292328
SVRDDC
KSC007-292345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
627 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 622 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 NEAR HAZELTON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SHARON AROUND 645 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 3702 9866 3702 9836 3737 9838 3737 9848
          3742 9851 3744 9863
$$

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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, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	18 min
May 29, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	34 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.