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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 22, 2000Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2000, 12:11 AM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 22, 2000, 12:11 AM CDT (05:11 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 22, 12:15 AM CDTHail 0.75Wakeeney, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2131 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
7.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 220512
SVRDDC
KSC195-220600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1211 AM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1211 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKEENEY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF QUINTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WAKEENEY AT 1225 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR.

LAT...LON 3897 10020 3882 10006 3911 9961 3911 9994

KRUSE

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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.