Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2004, 6:39 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 21, 2004, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2004, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
414 WFUS53 KDDC 212339 TORDDC KSC119-220040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 638 PM CDT WED APR 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 740 PM CDT * AT 632 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER NEAR HAYNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY AT 700 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS TO 70 MPH. 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 3723 10063 3701 10064 3700 10034 3706 10034 $$ LACY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 24 min |
| Apr 21, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 31 min |
| Apr 21, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 64 min |
| Apr 21, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 32 min |
| Apr 21, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.