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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Dodge City, KS
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:01 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Johnson, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 3:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Stanton | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 45 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.