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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 25, 2000Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 8:59 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 25, 2000, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Hugoton, 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
Jun 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 2723 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 260159
SVRDDC
KSC189-260245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
859 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 859 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODS...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WOODS AT 905 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3726 10107 3731 10124 3700 10134 3701 10107

POAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	24 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	49 min
Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	3 hr
Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	30 min
Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	41 min
Jun 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	44 min
Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	18 min
Jun 25, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	43 min
Jun 25, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell	51 min
Jun 25, 9:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Stafford	3 hr
Jun 25, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	47 min
Jun 25, 10:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	3 hr
Jun 25, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.