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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 22, 2000Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 7:12 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2000, 7:12 PM MDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2000, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 7:14 PM MDTHail 0.75Kendall, 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 2000-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3087 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
3087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.4

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton38 min
Jun 23, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego44 min
Jun 23, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego40 min
Jun 23, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Meade45 min
Jun 23, 5:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningDDCTrego3 hr
Jun 23, 5:32 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCTrego28 min
Jun 23, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.