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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2000Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 6:48 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 9, 2000, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kalvesta, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 092350
SVRDDC
KSC055-100015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING    
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  RURAL AREAS EAST AND NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE CURRENT WARNING FOR FINNEY COUNTY.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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

LAT...LON 3802 10084 3789 10068 3800 10067 3803 10031
          3824 10040 3823 10085

REITER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	38 min
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

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.