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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 7, 2000Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 3:19 PM CST for Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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: Mar 7, 2000, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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	Remark
Mar 7, 3:43 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Manter, KS
Mar 7, 3:55 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Rolla, 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
Mar 7, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 072120
SVRDDC
KSC129-187-072200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
319 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 319 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  MANTER TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANTER TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF     
  WILBURTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MANTER BY 335 PM CST
  RICHFIELD BY 340 PM CST
  ROLLA BY 355 PM CST
  JOHNSON CITY BY 400 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3772 10205 3701 10193 3704 10156 3774 10161

MCCAMMON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	36 min
Mar 7, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	44 min
Mar 7, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	46 min
Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Kearny	53 min
Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	53 min
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	40 min
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	40 min
Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 min
Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.