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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 24, 2000Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 6:29 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kearny County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 6:59 PM CDT	Hail 1	Lakin, KS
Apr 24, 7:13 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Lakin, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 242331
SVRDDC
KSC093-250015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 629 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE   
THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST 
AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LAKIN BY 710 PM CDT
  5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEERFIELD BY 715 PM CDT

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

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3825 10153 3805 10154 3780 10124 3805 10109

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, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	50 min
Apr 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	40 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.