Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 7:33 PM CDT for Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. 3 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, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Grant County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lakin, KS | |
| Apr 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Hickok, KS | |
| Apr 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Ulysses, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 250035 SVRDDC KSC067-093-250115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 733 PM CDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 733 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF KENDALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ULYSSES BY 810 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 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 3793 10145 3780 10152 3741 10151 3748 10110 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, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 47 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.