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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2000Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 5:51 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 10, 2000, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 371 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

588 
WUUS53 KDDC 102252
SVRDDC
KSC129-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
551 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DOGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE     
  THUNDERSTORM OVER ELKHART...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ELKHART

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

LAT...LON 3702 10202 3701 10169 3731 10160 3732 10200

REITER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney29 min
Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess29 min
Jun 10, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens49 min
Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens29 min
Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward, Stevens42 min
Jun 10, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward28 min
Jun 10, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell48 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.