Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 9:04 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 17, 2000, 9:04 PM CST (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2000, 9:40 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:20 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Medicine Lodge, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 180307 SVRDDC KSC007-180340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 904 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 940 PM CST * AT 904 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MEDICINE LODGE BY 920 PM CST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS LAT...LON 3722 9902 3707 9888 3744 9801 3761 9816 $$ 01/KRUSE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pratt, Stafford | 50 min |
| Feb 17, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 50 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.