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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 7, 2000Finney County, Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 4:50 PM CST for Finney County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 4 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, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 5:11 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Garden City, KS
Mar 7, 5:20 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Meade, KS	Tree down and power lines damaged.
Mar 7, 5:20 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Garden City, KS
Mar 7, 5:21 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 57 E	Meade, KS	Relayed from NWSO ICT - TV weather lab observation.

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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 072252
SVRDDC
KSC055-069-119-072330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 450 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HOLCOMB TO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLAINS CITY TO 15 MILES           
  SOUTHWEST OF MEADE STATE PARK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PLAINS CITY BY 500 PM CST
  COPELAND BY 515 PM CST
  MEADE STATE PARK BY 520 PM CST
  GARDEN CITY BY 525 PM CST
  MEADE BY 530 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING...  
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS GREATER THAN 80 MILES AN HOUR

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

LAT...LON 3801 10111 3771 10066 3737 10065 3701 10061
          3702 10012 3747 10021 3802 10025

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, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	53 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.