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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 25, 2000Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
30 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 23:33 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 12:00Z, 11.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 107 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 2000-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 252331
SVRDDC
KSC083-260000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
630 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 700 PM CDT

* AT 630 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANSTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF JETMORE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
RURAL HODGEMAN COUNTY AT 640 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3793 9989 3792 9959 3823 9959 3824 9984

BURGERT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord51 min
Oct 25, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord29 min
Oct 25, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord32 min
Oct 25, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade38 min
Oct 25, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman36 min
Oct 25, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.