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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 2004, 11:36 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 4 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
- Aug 10, 2004, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 11:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 13 Nw Richfield, KS | SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS BROKEN, LARGEST BEING 11 INCHES IN DIAMETER. |
| Aug 10, 11:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 13 Nw Richfield, KS | SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS BROKEN, LARGEST BEING 11 INCHES IN DIAMETER. |
| Aug 10, 11:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 10 Sw Manter, KS | A FEW LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN |
| Aug 10, 11:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 10 Sw Manter, KS | A FEW LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 110436 TORDDC KSC187-110515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1135 PM CDT TUE AUG 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1032 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF STANTON COUNTY... MANTER... JOHNSON CITY... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 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. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR THIS COUNTY. LAT...LON 3771 10203 3740 10202 3739 10152 3750 10151 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 77 min |
| Aug 10, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 64 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.