Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 3:28 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2000, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 10, 3:34 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Wright, KS | |
| Aug 10, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Spearville, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 102028 SVRDDC KSC057-102115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 328 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 328 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF SPEARVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF FORD...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 4 MILES SOUTH OF SPEARVILLE...7 MILES WEST OF WINDTHORST...9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLEFONT AT 415 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3768 998f9 3766 9968 3787 9957 3791 9986 SLEIGHTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 38 min |
| Aug 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 42 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.