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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 1999Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1999, 10:42 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1999, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1999, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 00:00Z on 1999-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1471 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 00:00Z on 1999-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
1471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 3:48 PM CDT, 6 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:48 PM CDT, 6 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton62 min
Jun 10, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton32 min
Jun 11, 3:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.