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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 17, 2000Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 4:45 PM CST for Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Feb 17, 2000, 4:45 PM CST (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Finney County, KS, Kearny County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 17, 4:50 PM CSTHail 0.75Lakin, KS
Feb 17, 4:52 PM CSTHail 0.75Lakin, KS
Feb 17, 4:55 PM CSTHail 0.88Deerfield, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 2000-02-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-02-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 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 KDDC 172247
SVRDDC
KSC055-093-172330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
445 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 445 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEERFIELD BY 500 PM CST
  10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRIEND BY 530 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS



LAT...LON 3799 10144 3786 10130 3825 10074 3824 10112

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KRUSE

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.