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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2004Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 4:03 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 5, 2004, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 408 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-382 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KICT 052103
SVRICT
KSC105-052200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
403 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT.

* AT 403 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF SYLVAN GROVE...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES WEST OF LINCOLN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR LINCOLN AROUND 415 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN
COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3905 9840 3891 9838 3893 9806 3909 9808

$$

/ES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell57 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell55 min
Jun 5, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth56 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton55 min
Jun 5, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth67 min
Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice63 min
Jun 5, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno62 min
Jun 5, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno67 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.