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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2000, 11:25 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 21, 2000, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:24 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1395 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
866 WUUS53 KDDC 220426 SVRDDC KSC171-220500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1125 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1125 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF SHALLOW WATER...OR ABOUT OVER FRIEND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FRIEND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES... DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... LAT...LON 3843 10115 3830 10100 3837 10084 3853 10085 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Meade | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 15 min |
| Jul 22, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.