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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 26, 2000Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 6:18 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2000, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2000, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1756 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1756 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

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

077 
WUUS53 KDDC 270020
SVRDDC
KSC075-270100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
618 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 618 PM MDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING     
  EDGE OF A SEVERE   THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF SYRACUSE...MOVING 
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KENDALL BY 645 PM MDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES

AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE
LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny48 min
May 26, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney47 min
May 26, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego46 min
May 26, 9:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford38 min
May 26, 9:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
May 26, 11:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche39 min
May 26, 11:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade46 min
May 27, 12:17 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningDDCBarber, Comanche3 hr

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.