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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 24, 2000Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 8:11 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2000, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 24, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 250112
SVRDDC
KSC067-250145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
811 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

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 811 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF HICKOK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RYUS BY 830 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

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


LAT...LON 3772 10128 3752 10146 3739 10134 3740 10108
          3766 10109

BURGERT

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny42 min
Apr 24, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.