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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2000Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 4:19 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 9, 2000, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kearny County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.

001 
WUUS53 KDDC 092119
SVRDDC
KSC093-092200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 419 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF LAKIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKIN AT 425 PM CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

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

LAT...LON 3823 10150 3774 10145 3777 10113 3824 10116

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 min
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.