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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 8:28 PM CDT for Haskell County, Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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.
| 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 250130
SVRDDC
KSC081-175-250215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
828 PM CDT MON APR 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NORTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 828 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SATANTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
SATANTA BY 835 PM CDT
NEAR SUBLETTE BY 840 PM CDT
KISMET BY 910 PM CDT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
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. AVOID USING THE
TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE
AREA.
LAT...LON 3760 10108 3731 10106 3711 10090 3709 10064
3749 10065
BURGERT
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.