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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 21, 2000Scott County, Kansas

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.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 21, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 905 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt31 min
Jul 21, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford47 min
Jul 21, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess40 min
Jul 21, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny41 min
Jul 21, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney38 min
Jul 21, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell48 min
Jul 21, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray44 min
Jul 22, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney36 min
Jul 22, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Meade49 min
Jul 22, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward49 min
Jul 22, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray15 min
Jul 22, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark65 min
Jul 22, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord33 min
Jul 22, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade32 min
Jul 22, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.