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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 27, 2004Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2004, 2:20 PM CST for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 27, 2004, 2:20 PM CST (20:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2004, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Mar 27, 11:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 1373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 272022
TORDDC
KSC097-151-272120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
220 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WELLSFORD...HAVILAND
  WESTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HOPEWELL

* UNTIL 320 PM CST

* AT 217 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HAVILAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WELLSFORD BY 225 PM CST
  HOPEWELL BY 250 PM CST

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.

LAT...LON 3758 9917 3753 9908 3753 9908 3769 9887
          3780 9893 3781 9900 3773 9900 3770 9906
          3768 9909

$$

FINCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 11:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	51 min
Mar 27, 12:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	47 min
Mar 27, 12:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	39 min
Mar 27, 12:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	58 min
Mar 27, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	56 min
Mar 27, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	60 min
Mar 27, 1:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	38 min
Mar 27, 1:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee	33 min
Mar 27, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	67 min
Mar 27, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	48 min
Mar 27, 2:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	36 min
Mar 27, 2:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	58 min
Mar 27, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	63 min
Mar 27, 4:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	59 min
Mar 27, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	57 min
Mar 27, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	35 min
Mar 27, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	76 min
Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	60 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.