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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2000Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT for Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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 10, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 7:00 PM CDTThunderstorm WindHayne, KSMobile home blown over onto a truck.

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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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°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.

096 
WUUS53 KDDC 102319
SVRDDC
KSC175-189-110000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DOGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 618 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF     
  WOODS TO 6 MILES EAST OF HAYNE...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WOODS
  KISMET

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR STEVENS COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3709 10127 3707 10069 3727 10067 3729 10135

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, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.