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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 5:56 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 16, 2004, 5:56 PM MDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 12:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
528 WFUS53 KDDC 162356 TORDDC KSC075-170030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 556 PM MDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 630 PM MDT * AT 554 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF HAMILTON COUNTY... COOLIDGE... SYRACUSE... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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. LAT...LON 3816 10203 3775 10204 3774 10162 3822 10156 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 5:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 7:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 9:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 80 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.