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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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
- Sep 22, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Preston, KS | |
| Sep 22, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Pratt, KS | |
| Sep 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Pratt, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 222244 SVRDDC KSC151-222330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 544 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF IUKA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED PRESTON...7 MILES NORTH OF CAIRO AT 555 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY I~SSUED. LAT...LON 3780 9899 3747 9899 3748 9848 3780 9849 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 63 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.