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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 12:06 AM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2000, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 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 27, 12:33 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Coldwater, 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.
522 WUUS53 KDDC 270507 SVRDDC KSC033-270545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1206 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 1206 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BUTTERMILK...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BUTTERMILK BY 1220 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3718 9953 3700 9950 3701 9903 3732 9902 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 26, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 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.