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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 3, 2000Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 2000, 8:11 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
Oct 3, 2000, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
Oct 3, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 2000-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 00:00Z on 2000-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-357 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 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 040114
SVRDDC
KSC093-040200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
811 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 811 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM ABOUT TO CROSS THE KEARNY COUNTY BORDER FROM
  WICHITA COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
RURAL NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3825 10153 3821 10153 3807 10112 3824 10110

SLEIGHTER

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.