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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 17, 2000Finney County, Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 11:25 PM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2000, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 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 17, 11:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Cimarron, 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 180426
SVRDDC
KSC055-069-180515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1125 PM CDT MON JUL 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1125 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF      
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF KALVESTA 
  TO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PIERCEVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CHARLESTON AT 1130 PM CDT
  INGALLS AT 1135 PM CDT
  KALVESTA AT 1140 PM CDT
  CIMARRON AT 1145 PM CDT
  THE HAGGARD ELEV AT 1150 PM CDT
  ENSIGN AT 1155 PM CDT

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

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

L9AT...LON 3775 10081 3774 10063 3750 10023 3823 10024
          3825 10046

REITER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	29 min
Jul 17, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	50 min
Jul 17, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	23 min

Nearby

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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.