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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 3, 2000Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 3:13 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 3, 2000, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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
Jul 3, 3:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Meade, KS	Ten inch limb broken.

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 2288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

933 
WUUS53 KDDC 032013
SVRDDC
KSC119-032100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
313 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 313 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  6 MILES EAST OF MEADE STATE PARK AT 345 PM CDT
  MEADE...8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MISSLER AT 400 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3701 10043 3701 10013 3746 10012 3746 10047

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	42 min
Jul 2, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	38 min
Jul 3, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	38 min
Jul 3, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	31 min
Jul 3, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	33 min
Jul 3, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	47 min
Jul 3, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	48 min
Jul 3, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	54 min
Jul 3, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	47 min
Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	40 min
Jul 3, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	39 min
Jul 3, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	44 min
Jul 3, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	46 min
Jul 3, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell	41 min
Jul 3, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	51 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.