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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 7, 2000Clark County, Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 5:27 PM CST for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports 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: Mar 7, 2000, 5:27 PM CST (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
Mar 7, 5:30 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Ashland, KS
Mar 7, 5:35 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Fowler, KS
Mar 7, 6:09 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Dodge City, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 072330
SVRDDC
KSC025-055-057-069-083-119-080015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
527 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHWESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 527 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  PIERCEVILLE TO 5 MILES WEST OF FOWLER TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF      
  ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CHARLESTON BY 535 PM CST
  ACRES BY 545 PM CST
  CIMARRON BY 555 PM CST
  ASHLAND BY 605 PM CST
  DODGE CITY BY 605 PM CST
  HOWELL BY 610 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN FINNEY...GRAY...AND MEADE COUNTIES.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3804 10090 3734 10035 3701 10005 3700 9961
          3719 9954 3791 9971 3807 10002 3824 10029

MCCAMMON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	41 min
Mar 7, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	36 min
Mar 7, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	44 min
Mar 7, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	46 min
Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Kearny	53 min
Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	53 min
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	40 min
Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	40 min
Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 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.