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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 11:25 PM CST for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 2 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, 11:25 PM CST (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pratt County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Pratt, KS | |
| Feb 24, 11:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KDDC 250526
SVRDDC
KSC151-250615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1125 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1215 AM CST
* AT 1125 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF SAWYER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
SAWYER BY 1125 PM CST
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
LAT...LON 3754 9878 3748 9874 3747 9848 3779 9848
G 3781 9869
REITER
NNNNThe 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 | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 65 min |
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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.