Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 7:42 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- May 26, 2000, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Deerfield, KS | 6 inch tree limbs down |
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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
378 WUUS53 KDDC 270044 SVRDDC KSC093-270130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 742 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT(730 PM MDT) * AT 742 PM CDT(642 PM MDT)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF KENDALL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED LAKIN BY 810 PM CDT DEERFIELD BY 820 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ 01 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 42 min |
| May 26, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| May 26, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 38 min |
| May 26, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| May 27, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 39 min |
| May 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 46 min |
| May 27, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.