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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2000, 5:54 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Oct 25, 2000, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hanston, KS | Hail lasted 36 minutes and piled 10 inches deep on the east side of the home. |
| Oct 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hanston, KS | Hail lasted 30 minutes. |
| Oct 25, 6:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hanston, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 33 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.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 252257 SVRDDC KSC083-252330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 554 PM CDT WED OCT 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 554 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF HANSTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JETMORE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HANSTON AT 615 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS LAT...LON 3791 9982 3791 9969 3823 9958 3824 9982 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 51 min |
| 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, 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.