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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2000Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 2:43 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 9, 2000, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 9, 3:01 PM CDTHail 0.75Johnson, KS

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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 2000-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 76 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 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
76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-471 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 091943
SVRDDC
KSC187-092030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
243 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 243 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIG BOW...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF JOHNSON CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  6 MILES NORTH OF BIG BOW AT 300 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

LAT...LON 3771 10178 3754 10174 3753 10156 3773 10153

BURGERT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton46 min
Aug 9, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny52 min
Aug 9, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCStanton3 hr
Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton56 min
Aug 9, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton48 min
Aug 9, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny41 min
Aug 9, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman45 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.