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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 13, 2000Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
Oct 13, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Barber County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 13, 12:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Medicine Lodge, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 2000-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 76 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 2000-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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.

937 
WUUS53 KDDC 131730
SVRDDC
KSC007-131815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1230 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 115 PM CDT

* AT 1230 PM CDT...18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES NORTHEAST OF AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MEDICINE LODGE AT 1245 PM CDT
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHARON AT 1250 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3717 9896 3703 9883 3746 9798 3767 9816

KRUSE

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.