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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 10:31 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 240333 SVRDDC KSC057-240415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1031 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1031 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF SPEARVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL NORTHEAST FORD COUNTY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3791 9988 3753 9955 3780 9956 3791 9957# GERARD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.