Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 3:14 PM MST for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 3:14 PM MST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 4:00 PM MST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 3:45 PM MST | Hail 0.75 | Syracuse, KS | |
| Mar 7, 3:50 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind | Syracuse, KS | Grain bin destroyed. |
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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 072215 SVRDDC KSC075-072300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 314 PM MST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM MST(500 PM CST) * AT 314 PM MST(414 PM CST)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYRACUSE TO SYRACUSE TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF KENDALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KENDALL BY 335 PM MST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES 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 3824 10195 3774 10166 3774 10152 3826 10156 G 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, 2:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 2:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 44 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.