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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 1, 2000Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2000, 6:01 PM CDT for Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
Jul 1, 2000, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 1, 6:05 PM CDTHail 1Woods, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1283 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

322 
WUUS53 KDDC 012302
SVRDDC
KSC175-189-012330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
601 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 601 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF WOODS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF
  LIBERAL...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WOODS AT 630 PM CDT

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



LAT...LON 3696 10108 3707 10091 3736 10115 3720 10139
$$
KRUSE

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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.