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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2000Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 9, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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
Jun 9, 5:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Ulysses, KS
Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ulysses, KS	Roof blown off a house and also off a trailer house. Powe poles blown 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -343 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 092239
SVRDDC
KSC067-092315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
537 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 532 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES...MOVING EAST AT     
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ULYSSES AT 550 PM CDT
  
HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND 
MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3758 10158 3746 10143 3740 10116 3771 10110
          3772 10129

REITER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	45 min
Jun 9, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	36 min
Jun 9, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	31 min
Jun 9, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	27 min

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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.