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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2000Ford County, Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT for Ford County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ford County, KS, Meade County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 41 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 2000-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 908 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

286 
WUUS53 KDDC 232317
SVRDDC
KSC057-119-240000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
615 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EXTREME NORTHEAST MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 615 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF FOWLER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF
  MINNEOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY AT 630 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3741 10032 3730 10014 3745 10012 3749 10008
          3749 9999 3757 9993 3755 10018 3746 10020

SLEIGHTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton38 min
Jun 22, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny63 min
Jun 23, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego44 min
Jun 23, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego40 min
Jun 23, 6:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCTrego3 hr
Jun 23, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego28 min
Jun 23, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.