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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2000Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
Jun 23, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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 23, 8:50 PM CDTHail 0.88Shields, KS
Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 MDighton, KSKSN Weather Lab
Jun 23, 9:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61 EAlamota, 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2642 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 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
2642 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
19.0

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The text

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

827 
WUUS53 KDDC 240136
SVRDDC
KSC101-240215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 836 PM CDT...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIGHTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  9 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIGHTON AT 845 PM CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3868 10027 3867 10062 3830 10055 3831 10025

SLEIGHTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego60 min
Jun 23, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens51 min
Jun 23, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess61 min
Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush59 min
Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego48 min
Jun 23, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane35 min
Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Rush58 min
Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCNess, Rush4 hr
Jun 23, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney56 min
Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCTrego4 hr
Jun 23, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush63 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness44 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman44 min
Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman46 min
Jun 23, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee47 min
Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
Jun 23, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa38 min
Jun 23, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray49 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.