Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 11:06 PM CDT for Ford County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2000, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2000, 11:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 240407 SVRDDC KSC057-069-240455- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1106 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS EASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1155 PM CDT * AT 1106 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HOWELL MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED DODGE CITY AT 1135 PM CDT FT. DODGE...WRIGHT AT 1145 PM CDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS. LAT...LON 3785 u10030 3764 10029 3763 9976 3788 9975 01
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, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 38 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.