Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
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 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hayne, KS | Mobile 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 29 min |
| 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, 6:47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.