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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 6:11 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 16, 2000, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Meade, KS | Five power poles were blown down. |
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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 162314 SVRDDC KSC119-162345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 611 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 611 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL MEADE COUNTY SOUTH OF MEADE STATE PARK THROUGH 645 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3718 10049 3701 10045 3704 10012 3725 10017 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 44 min |
| Jul 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 52 min |
| Jul 16, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 49 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.