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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 11:03 PM CDT for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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, 11:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hanston, KS | |
| Jul 20, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Jetmore, KS | Two inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 12 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.
902 WUUS53 KDDC 210406 SVRDDC KSC057-083-210445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1103 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1103 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANSTON TO 13 MILES NORTH OF HOWELL...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANSTON TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF KALVESTA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED JETMORE AT 1115 PM CDT HANSTON AT 1120 PM CDT DODGE CITY AT 1130 PM CDT HOWELL AT 1135 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 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 3825 9963 3793 10026 3747 10018 3747 9958 EKB
The 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 | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 40 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, 11:20 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.