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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 5:18 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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 10, 2000, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 5:21 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Beeler, KS | Two 12X14 foot metal doors were ripped from a machine shed and blown 150 ft. |
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.
529 WUUS53 KDDC 102218 SVRDDC KSC135-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 518 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWEST NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF BEELER...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BEELER AT 600 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 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 3826 10023 3826 10008 3853 9998 3852 10023 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, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 38 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.