Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 7:16 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2000, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 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), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 743 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
743 WUUS53 KDDC 100018 SVRDDC KSC055-100045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 716 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KALVESTA BY 735 PM CDT 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 3810 10061 3797 10045 3803 10025 3824 10031 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.