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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 2000Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 6:07 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
Aug 7, 2000, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clark County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1567 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

870 
WUUS53 KDDC 072307
SVRDDC
KSC025-080000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
607 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 607 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTH AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  6 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND AT 700 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR.
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3701 10008 3701 9956 3740 9957 3743 10000

SLEIGHTER

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.