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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2000, 4:24 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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
- Oct 25, 2000, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ford, KS | Tornado was filmed and photographed by several storm chasers. Bottom of the circulation moved southwest due to rain-cooled outflow. |
| Oct 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ford, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
963 WUUS53 KDDC 252124 SVRDDC KSC057-252215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 424 PM CDT WED OCT 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 424 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF FORD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SPEARVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPEARVILLE AT 450 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3748 9995 3748 9958 3790 9958 3790 9978 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 29 min |
| Oct 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 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.