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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 7, 2000Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 4:22 PM CST for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 5 reports 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: Mar 7, 2000, 4:22 PM CST (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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
Mar 7, 4:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberal, KS	Truck blown over, power poles blown down and bleachers at the football field heavily damaged.
Mar 7, 4:30 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Ulysses, KS
Mar 7, 4:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Satanta, KS	Power poles blown down.
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Sublette, KS	Power poles blown down.
Mar 7, 5:20 PM CST	Hail 0.75 E	Copeland, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 072223
SVRDDC
KSC067-081-093-175-072300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
422 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  
* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 420 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE          
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF    
  LAKIN TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF ULYSSES TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST             
  OF LIBERAL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ULYSSES BY 420 PM CST
  CAVE BY 430 PM CST
  HAYNE BY 435 PM CST
  HICKOK BY 440 PM CST
  RYUS BY 450 PM CST
  KISMET BY 455 PM CST

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

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3748 10151 3701 10100 3700 10065 3762 10066
          3776 10108 3824 10114 3823 10153

MCCAMMON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	41 min
Mar 7, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	36 min
Mar 7, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	44 min
Mar 7, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	46 min
Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Kearny	53 min
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	40 min
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	40 min
Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 min
Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	48 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.