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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 3, 2000Ford County, Gray County, Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 10:40 PM CDT for Ford County, Gray County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 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
Jul 3, 10:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 69 E	Jetmore, 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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: 3994 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 10.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 040341
SVRDDC
KSC057-069-083-040430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1040 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1040 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES WEST OF
  JETMORE TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CIMARRON TO 17 MILES WEST OF THE
  HAGGARD ELEVATOR...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  KALVESTA TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CIMARRON TO 8 MILES NORTH OF
  COPELAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HOWELL AT 1105 PM CDT
  JETMORE AT 1110 PM CDT
  THE HAGGARD ELEVATOR AT 1115 PM CDT
  ENSIGN AT 1125 PM CDT
  DODGE CITY...HANSTON...5 MILES WEST OF GRAY AT 1130 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR GRAY COUNTY.

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 3823 10021 3789 10035 3760 10079 3760 10018
          3789 9974 3823 9959

$$

POAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	46 min
Jul 3, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	49 min
Jul 3, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	28 min
Jul 3, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	47 min
Jul 3, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	48 min
Jul 3, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	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.