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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 22, 2000Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2000, 5:33 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 22, 2000, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 2000-09-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 2000-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 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 222234
SVRDDC
KSC097-222315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
533 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 533 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF HAVILAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL KIOWA COUNTY WEST OF HAVILAND THROUGH 615 550 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...

LAT...LON 3756 9950 3740 9934 3741 9903 3771 9903
          3773 9926

REITER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards45 min
Sep 22, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford51 min
Sep 22, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford46 min
Sep 22, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt41 min
Sep 22, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt46 min
Sep 22, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.