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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 10, 2000Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 3:08 PM CDT for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 10, 2000, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 2000-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1320 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 2000-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
1320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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 102008
SVRDDC
KSC081-102100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
308 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 308 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF SUBLETTE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF SATANTA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
RURAL HASKELL COUNTY AT 320 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 An STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3745 10102 3740 10081 3772 10071 3772 10094

SLEIGHTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord47 min
Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord38 min
Aug 10, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.