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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 5:50 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 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, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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, 5:57 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 M | Syracuse, KS | |
| Apr 24, 6:05 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 242351 SVRDDC KSC075-250030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 550 PM MDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM MDT * AT 550 PM MDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED. SEVERE THUNDERTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORN ADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3814 10182 3799 10206 3776 10202 3775 10163 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, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 46 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.