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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2004, 5:45 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2004, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barber County, KS
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, 1:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 272345 TORDDC KSC007-280045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 542 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HAZELTON * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 539 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF HAZELTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARDTNER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM. HAZELTON BY 640 PM 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3722 9871 3701 9884 3702 9836 3721 9836 $$ BURGERT
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, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 25 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 |
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.