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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 8:09 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. 14 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
- Jun 29, 2000, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ellis County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hays, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Codell, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Natoma, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:47 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Paradise, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Paradise, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Victoria, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:57 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Fairport, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:57 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Fairport, KS | |
| Jun 29, 9:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Fairport, KS | Hail covered ground to a depth of one inch. |
| Jun 29, 9:07 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Russell, KS | |
| Jun 29, 9:09 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Gorham, KS | |
| Jun 29, 9:18 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Galatia, KS | Windows broken at a couple of homes as well as a few vehicles. |
| Jun 29, 9:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Gorham, KS | |
| Jun 29, 9:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Galatia, 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 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
851 WUUS53 KDDC 300110 SVRDDC KSC051-300215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 809 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 808 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 29 MILES NORTH OF EMMERAM TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CATHERINE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WOODSTON TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF ZURICH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HAYS...CATHERINE...EMMERAM AT 830 PM CDT TOULON...VICTORIA AT 835 PM CDT WALKER AT 840 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3951 9902 3917 9962 3841 9887 3874 9828 POAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 58 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.