Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 7:28 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 10, 2000, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 10, 7:31 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ness City, KS | |
| Jul 10, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ransom, 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 110030 COR SVRDDC KSC135-110130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED STORM MOVEMENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 728 PM CDT MON JUL 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 728 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NESS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RANSOM AT 735 PM CDT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROWNELL AT 740 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES VERY HEAVY RAINFALLb WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! LAT...LON 3868 10021 3827 10022 3827 9961 3868 9961 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 66 min |
| Jul 10, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.