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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 10:20 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Ness County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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
- Jul 20, 2000, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hodgeman County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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 20, 10:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hanston, KS | |
| Jul 20, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Alexander, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 54.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KDDC 210321
SVRDDC
KSC083-135-145-165-185-210400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1020 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
EASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NESS CITY TO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN
HODGEMAN COUNTY TO ST JOHN WILL MOVE EAST 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
ALL OF STAFFORD, PAWNEE, RUSH, AND EASTERN NESS COUNTIES AND EXTREME
NORTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY THORUGH 11 PM.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
LAT...LON 3856 9991 3829 9990 3797 10005 3810 9933
3798 9862 3825 9905 3860 9918
NNNN
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 20 min |
| Jul 20, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 61 min |
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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.