Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 6:35 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 6:35 PM CST (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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, 6:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Lake City, KS | Large tree was blown down. |
| Mar 7, 6:55 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lake City, KS | |
| Mar 7, 7:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hazelton, 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 080037 SVRDDC KSC007-080100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 635 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 635 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CITY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MEDICINE LODGE BY 650 BY CST 5 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE CITY BY 655 PM CST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3737 9900 3703 9894 3700 9836 3746 9849 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, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 33 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.