Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2005, 7:40 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 29, 2005, 7:40 PM CST (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2005, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 300140 SVRDDC KSC007-300230- /O.NEW.KDDC.SV.W.0013.050330T0140Z-050330T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 740 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 735 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF KIOWA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY... KIOWA... HAZELTON... SHARON... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3685 9869 3682 9836 3738 9836 3737 9846 $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDDC 300203 SVSDDC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 801 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 KSC007-300211- /O.CAN.KDDC.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050330T0230Z/ BARBER KS- 801 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 752 PM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL IN HAZELTON. HOWEVER, AT 756 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3685 9869 3682 9836 3738 9836 3737 9846 $$ FINCH
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.