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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2000Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 2:38 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2000, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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 MDTThunderstorm Wind 56 ELakin, 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-08-09The 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 092039
SVRDDC
KSC075-093-092130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHWEST KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT(330 PM MDT)

* AT 338 PM CDT(238 PM MDT)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF KENDALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KENDALL AT 410 PM CDT (310 PM MDT)

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS
WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3780 10169 3772 10154 3774 10137 3799 10131
          3800 10153

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 min
Aug 9, 2:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton46 min
Aug 9, 2:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningDDCStanton3 hr
Aug 9, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton56 min
Aug 9, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton48 min
Aug 9, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny41 min
Aug 9, 5:00 PM MDTSevere 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.