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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 24, 2000Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 5:28 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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: Apr 24, 2000, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Morton County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 5:49 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Elkhart, KS
Apr 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Richfield, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 24, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -74 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.

451 
WUUS53 KDDC 242228
SVRDDC
KSC129-187-242318-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
528 PM CDT MON APR 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EXTREME SOUTHERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 618 PM CDT

* AT 528 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE   
THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  NEAR RICHFIELD BY 545 PM CDT
  NEAR ROLLA BY 550 PM CDT

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

WHEN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREATENS GO INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3740 10205 3701 10203 3701 10157 3740 10156

BURGERT

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	40 min
Apr 24, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	46 min
Apr 24, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	40 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.