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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 12:57 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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 22, 2000, 12:57 AM CDT (05:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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 22, 1:05 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Dodge City, KS | One inch branches broken. |
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 21, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 16 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.
917 WUUS53 KDDC 220558 SVRDDC KSC057-220630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1257 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1257 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINDTHORST TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINGSDOWN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KINGSDOWN BUCKLIN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR FORD COUNTY. FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3749 10002 3748 9958 3787 9958 3789 9982 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, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 35 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, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 61 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.