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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 17, 2000Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 7:55 PM CST for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 4 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: Feb 17, 2000, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Feb 17, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Feb 17, 8:00 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Haviland, KS
Feb 17, 8:10 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Trousdale, KS
Feb 17, 8:30 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Cullison, KS
Feb 17, 8:40 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Macksville, 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
Feb 17, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 180157
SVRDDC
TTAA00 KDDC 180155

KSC047-097-151-185-180245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
755 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 755 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  FELLSBURG TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FELLSBURG TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF       
  HOPEWELL..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BYERS BY 800 PM CST
  FELLSBURG BY 805 PM CST
  TROUSDALE BY 810 PM CST
  DILLWYN BY 825 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...  HAIL UP TO THE 
SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH.



LAT...LON 3766 9939 3760 9935 3769 9887 3786 9882
          3803 9887 3791 9916

$$
01/KRUSE

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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
Feb 17, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pratt, Stafford	50 min
Feb 17, 9:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	36 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.