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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 10, 2000Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 8:24 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2000, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1346 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110127
SVRDDC
KSC195-110215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
824 PM CDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 824 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE 
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR BLUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
RURAL TREGO COUNTY AT 840 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY:!

LAT...LON 3871 9999 3871 9961 3912 9961 3913 9989

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis38 min
Jul 10, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess62 min
Jul 10, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.