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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 30, 2000Clark County, Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 30, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2000, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 301102
SVRDDC
KSC025-057-301145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTH FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 AM CDT

* AT 600 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF BLOOM TO
  ENGLEWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BLOOM BY 605 AM CDT
  ACRES BY 620 AM CDT
  CLARK STATE LAKE BY 630 AM CDT
  ASHLAND BY 635 AM CDT


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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 3765 9997 3743 10007 3703 10004 3704 9959
          3739 9959 3759 9961

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, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	38 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

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.