Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 10:44 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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, 10:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Greensburg, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
867 WUUS53 KDDC 270346 SVRDDC KSC097-270430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1044 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1044 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MULLINVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER BUCKLIN... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MULLINVILLE BY 1055 PM CDT 4 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBURG BY 1120 PM CDT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAVILAND BY 1130 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN BUKLIN AT 1040 PM WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY SLEIGHTER 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, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 48 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 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.