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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 25, 2000Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 9:20 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
May 25, 2000, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 25, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1344 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.0

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The text

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

957 
WUUS53 KDDC 260220
SVRDDC
KSC119-260300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
920 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 917 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE TO 8 MILES 
NORTHWEST OF MEADE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  FOWLER BY 935 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3738 10055 3712 10013 3745 10012 3747 10045

BURKE

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton35 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.