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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 19, 2000Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2000, 2:17 AM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 19, 2000, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 2427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 190717
SVRDDC
KSC101-190800-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
217 AM CDT WED JUL 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT

* AT 217 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  PENDENNIS TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIGHTON...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PENDENNIS TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF
  AMY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ALAMOTA AT 225 AM CDT.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3867 10031 3827 10079 3825 10026 3870 10022

&&

POAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	64 min
Jul 19, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	49 min
Jul 19, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000 Every 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.