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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 8:47 PM CST for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 8:47 PM CST (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clark County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 9:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Ashland, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KDDC 250248
SVRDDC
KSC025-250330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
847 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CST
* AT 847 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE
LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.
LAT...LON 3725 9987 3702 9979 3704 9958 3743 9958
3746 9972
$$
REITER
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
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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.