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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 30, 2000Finney County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 3:52 AM CDT for Finney County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 2000, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2000, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Finney County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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, 4:01 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Garden City, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 300853
SVRDDC
KSC055-171-300930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 AM CDT

* AT 352 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF FRIEND TO
  5 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY...  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  GARDEN CITY BY 355 AM CDT
  FRIEND BY 410 AM CDT
  SHALLOW WATER BY 415 AM CDT
  5 MILES WEST OF GRIGSTON BY 435 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 FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LO{N 3831 10115 3798 10103 3777 10087 3803 10054
          3827 10067 3861 10072

BURGERT

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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, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	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.