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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 2000Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 10:02 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 4 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, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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
Jun 29, 10:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 69 E	Seward, KS
Jun 29, 10:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Seward, KS
Jun 29, 10:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56 E	Seward, KS
Jun 29, 10:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Hudson, 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

734 
WUUS53 KDDC 300302
SVRDDC
KSC185-300400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1002 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 959 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF RADIUM...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF
  PAWNEE ROCK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RADIUM...SEWARD AT 1010 PM CDT
  HUDSON AT 1025 PM CDT
  ST. JOHN AT 1030 PM CDT
  6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STAFFORD AT 1045 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

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3824 9850 3824 9890 3799 9890 3799 9901
          3783 9900 3784 9850

$$

BURKE/COLEMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	66 min
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

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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.