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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 6:27 PM CST for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 6:27 PM CST (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 33 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), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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, 6:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mullinville, KS | Trampoline was thrown into trees. |
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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 080028 SVRDDC KSC097-080100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 627 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 627 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBURG...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORvMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3766 9952 3737 9931 3743 9900 3773 9919 MCCAMMON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 38 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.