Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 2:39 PM MST for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2000, 2:39 PM MST (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 3:15 PM MST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 3:00 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Syracuse, 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, 2:00 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 072139 SVRDDC KSC075-072215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 239 PM MST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 315 PM MST(415 PM CST) * AT 239 PM MST(339 PM CST)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF COOLIDGE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF MANTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COOLIDGE BY 310 PM MST 4 MILES SOUTH OF SYRACUSE BY 320 PM MST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS 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 3812 10204 3772 10192 3777 10 156 3825 10156 MCCAMMON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 2:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 3:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 3:22 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 3:22 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 3:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 3:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 4:27 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 4:27 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 48 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.