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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 5:16 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 2 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
- Jun 23, 2000, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Trego Center, KS | |
| Jun 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Trego Center, 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, 10.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
873 WUUS53 KDDC 232217 SVRDDC KSC195-232300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 516 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 516 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH OF WAKEENEY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF NESS CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 11 MILES SOUTH OF WAKEENEY AT 600 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3871 10012 3872 9986 3903 9969 3902 10003
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Meade | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 64 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.