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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 8:26 PM CST for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 8:26 PM CST (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gray County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:39 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Montezuma, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 250228 SVRDDC KSC069-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 826 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 826 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INGALLS TO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MONTEZUMA BY 835 PM CST CIMARRON BY 855 PM ENSIGN BY 910 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES* WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3781 10064 3748 10062 3749 10023 3798 10025 3800 10050 REITER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 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.