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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 29, 2005Barber County, Kansas

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.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 159 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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.