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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 16, 2000Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 8:46 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 16, 2000, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2000-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 591 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
591 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 170147
SVRDDC
KSC187-170215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
846 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 846 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE FROM 6  MILES WEST OF THE SAUNDERS      
  ELEVATOR TO 6 MILES NORTH OF RICHFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35    
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MANTER AT 900 PM CDT
  JOHNSON CITY AT 905 PM CDT
  BIG BOW AT 910 PM CDT

 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUGCING... 
 DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR.

LAT...LON 3753 10203 3739 10192 3743 10154 3759 10155
          3773 10181

REITER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton42 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.