Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 5:05 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2000, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:15 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Syracuse, KS | |
| Apr 24, 5:35 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Syracuse, 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, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 242307 SVRDDC KSC075-242345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 505 PM MDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 505 PM MDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF COOLIDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED NEAR COOLIDGE BY 515 PM MDT SYRACUSE BY 540 PM MDT NEAR KENDALL BY 550 PM MDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3824 10203 3796 10204 3782 1015f3 3826 10156 BURGERT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 5:50 PM MDT | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.