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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 7, 2000Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 6:07 PM CST for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 7, 2000, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 7, 6:10 PM CST	Tornado F1	Buttermilk, KS	Barn completely destroyed and several dog houses were destroyed but no injuries to the animals resulted. Debris was carried 2 miles.
Mar 7, 6:18 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Buttermilk, KS	Downburst destroyed a shed and toppled a 75 foot radio tower. An empty fuel tank was carried 400 yards. A camper trailer parked at an oil rig was heavily damaged and the male occupant received a minor injury.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 080009
SVRDDC
KSC033-080045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
607 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 607 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF
  PROTECTION TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUTTERMILK TO 9 MILES           
  SOUTHEAST OF BUTTERMILK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  COLDWATER BY 610 PM CST
  WILMORE BY 645 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3716 9953 3699 9930 3700 9901 3737 9902
          3738 9951

MCCAMMON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	33 min
Mar 7, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	40 min
Mar 7, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	30 min

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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.