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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 9:47 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. 9 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 24, 2004, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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 24, 9:56 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Collyer, KS | |
| May 24, 9:56 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Collyer, KS | |
| May 24, 10:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Quinter, KS | |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Wakeeney, KS | |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Wakeeney, KS | |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Wakeeney, KS | |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Wakeeney, KS | |
| May 24, 10:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 7 N Ogallah, KS | |
| May 24, 10:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Nne Ogallah, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
886 WFUS53 KDDC 250247 TORDDC KSC195-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 947 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 944 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR QUINTER... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VODA AROUND 1000 PM CDT. WAKEENEY AND 7 MILES NORTH OF TREGO CENTER AROUND 1015 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING PREFERABLY UNDERGROUND. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR THIS COUNTY. LAT...LON 3919 10034 3893 10036 3878 9961 3912 9960 $$ JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 50 min |
| May 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 61 min |
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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.