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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 17, 2000Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 10:10 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 17, 2000, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grant County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 17, 10:25 PM CDTHail 0.75Ulysses, 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 2000-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1178 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 2000-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 180311
SVRDDC
KSC067-180400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1010 PM CDT MON JUL 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1010 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  6 MILES NORTH OF ULYSSES AT 1035 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR...
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...


LAT...LON 3772 10152 3755 10152 3745 10111 3771 10111

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton29 min
Jul 17, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray50 min
Jul 17, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell23 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.