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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 30, 2000Finney County, Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 3:37 AM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 30, 2000, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2000, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 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 30, 3:52 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Garden City, KS
Apr 30, 4:20 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Copeland, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 300838
SVRDDC
KSC055-069-081-300915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
337 AM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  WESTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* AT 337 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF   
SUBLETTE TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SUBLETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 
MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  TICE BY 350 AM CDT
  COPELAND BY 400 AM CDT
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLYMELL BY 405 AM CDT
  5 MILES SOUTH OF PIERCEVILLE BY 420 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...  HAIL UP TO THE 
SIZE OF NICKELS.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLO0OR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3787 10107 3743 10088 3739 10076 3749 10048
          3769 10054 3805 10071

BURGERT

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	49 min
Apr 30, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	38 min
Apr 30, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	41 min
Apr 30, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	45 min
Apr 30, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	51 min
Apr 30, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	29 min
Apr 30, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	52 min
Apr 30, 5:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	52 min
Apr 30, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	45 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.