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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 24, 2000Barber County, Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 9:55 PM CST for Barber County, Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 6 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 24, 2000, 9:55 PM CST (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barber County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Feb 24, 10:15 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Greensburg, KS
Feb 24, 10:21 PM CST	Hail 1	Pratt, KS
Feb 24, 10:25 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Lake City, KS
Feb 24, 10:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Lake Arrowhead, KS
Feb 24, 10:52 PM CST	Hail 1	Croft, KS
Feb 24, 10:57 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Pratt, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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 250359
SVRDDC
KSC007-033-097-151-250500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
955 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CST

* AT 955 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF     
  HAVILAND TO 5 MILES WEST OF AETNA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BELVIDERE BY 955 PM CST
  HAVILAND BY 1000 PM 
  SUN CITY BY 1020 PM 
  CULLISON BY 1025 PM 
  COATS BY 1035 PM 

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR KIOWA AND 
COMANCHE COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 3771 9917 3743 9922 3704 9912 3704 9839
          3737 9852 3781 9850

REITER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	48 min
Feb 24, 8:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	49 min
Feb 24, 8:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	43 min
Feb 24, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	39 min
Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	45 min
Feb 24, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	50 min
Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	65 min
Feb 24, 11:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	50 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.