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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 25, 2000Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 10:55 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 25, 2000, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Barber County, KS

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, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 260355
SVRDDC
KSC007-260415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1055 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1055 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF AETNA TO 8 MILES NORTH OF SHARON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF AETNA TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF NASHVILLE...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SHARON AT 1100 PM CDT
  HARDTNER...HAZELTON...4 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIOWA AT 1115 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...  
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES.
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

LAT...LON 3708 9898 3737 9843 3701 9837 3700 9896

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, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	46 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

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.